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He saidוַיֹּאמֶרto him,לוֹ“Goלֵךְin peace.”לְשָׁלוֹםAnd he wentוַיֵּלֶךְfromמֵhimאִתּוֹsome distanceכִּבְרַתof land.אָרֶץ
2 Kings 5:19
Study it in the app“He said to him, “Go in peace.” And he went from him some distance of land.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Kings 5:19, word by word
- He saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Goלֵךְlech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appears- in peaceשָׁלוֹםshalom
peace
Living without war or quarrels, in harmony.
Where else “shalom” appears- some distanceכִּבְרַתkivrat
some distance
Some distance: a measure of road whose exact length is unknown.
Where else “kivrat” appears- of landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears
Translation note
Elisha answers only “Go in peace.” The text says nothing more: it neither approves nor disapproves of what Naaman has said.
The context
18In this matter may YHWH pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may YHWH pardon your servant in this matter.”
19 · This verse (above)
20Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman, the Aramean, by not taking from his hand what he brought. As YHWH lives, I will surely run after him and take something from him.”