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look,הִנְנִיI am sweeping awayמַבְעִירafterאַחֲרֵיBaashaבַעְשָׁאandוְafterאַחֲרֵיhis house,בֵיתוֹand I will makeוְנָתַתִּיyour houseבֵּיתְךָlike the houseכְּבֵיתof Jeroboamיָרָבְעָםsonבֶּןof Nebat.נְבָט
1 Kings 16:3
Study it in the app“look, I am sweeping away after Baasha and after his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 16:3, word by word
- I am sweeping awayמַבְעִירmavir
sweep away
To wipe out completely: "purge the evil".
Where else “mavir” appears- Baashaבַעְשָׁאvasha
Baasha
Baasha: a name of uncertain meaning. It is the man of Issachar who conspired against Nadab, wiped out the house of Jeroboam and reigned twenty-four years over Israel (1 Kings 15:27–16:7).
Where else “vasha” appears- his houseבֵיתvet
dynasty
Someone's descendants: "the house of David".
Where else “vet” appears- and I will makeנָתַתִּיnatati
make
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “natati” appears- of Jeroboamיָרָבְעָםyaravam
Jeroboam
Jeroboam: the name of two kings of Israel: Jeroboam son of Nebat, first king of the ten northern tribes (1 Kings 11–14), and Jeroboam son of Joash, much later (2 Kings 14:23-29).
Where else “yaravam” appears- sonבֶּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- of Nebatנְבָטnevat
Nebat
Nebat: father of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern tribes. He almost always appears in the phrase "Jeroboam son of Nebat."
Where else “nevat” appears
The context
2“Because I raised you up from the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,
3 · This verse (above)
4Whoever of Baasha’s house dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever of his dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”