Study it in the app“But now do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you should do to him, and you shall bring down his gray hair with blood to Sheol.””
But nowוְעַתָּהdo notאַלleave him unpunished,תְּנַקֵּהוּforכִּיyouאָתָּהare a wiseחָכָםman,אִישׁand you will knowוְיָדַעְתָּwhatאֵת אֲשֶׁרyou should doתַּעֲשֶׂהto him,לּוֹand you shall bring downוְהוֹרַדְתָּhis gray hairאֶת שֵׂיבָתוֹwith bloodבְּדָםto Sheol.”שְׁאוֹל
go unpunished
Not to receive the punishment one deserved.
Where else “tenake” appearswise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chacham” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadata” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taase” appearsbring down
To bring something or someone to a lower place.
Where else “horadta” appearsold age, gray hair
Old age; gray hair.
Where else “sevat” appearsbloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “dam” appearsSheol
Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.
Where else “sheol” appears8And there is with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by YHWH, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
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10And David lay down with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
