Study it in the app“One of his servants answered and said, “Let men take, please, five of the remaining horses, which are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; look, they are like all the multitude of Israel that have perished; and let us send and see.””
Oneאֶחָדofמֵhis servantsעֲבָדָיוansweredוַיַּעַןand said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Let men take,וְיִקְחוּplease,נָאfiveחֲמִשָּׁהofמִןthe remainingהַנִּשְׁאָרִיםhorses,הַסּוּסִיםwhichאֲשֶׁרare leftנִשְׁאֲרוּin it;בָהּlook,הִנָּםthey are likeכְּallכָלthe multitudeהֲמוֹןof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלthatאֲשֶׁרare leftנִשְׁאֲרוּin it;בָהּlook,הִנָּםthey are likeכְּallכָלthe multitudeהֲמוֹןof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלthatאֲשֶׁרhave perished;תָּמּוּand let us sendוְנִשְׁלְחָהand see.”וְנִרְאֶה
one
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appearsservant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avaday” appearsanswer
To reply to what was said.
Where else “yaan” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikchu” appearsfive
Five.
Where else “chamisha” appearsremain
To remain, what is left.
Where else “nisharim” appearshorse
A war and draft animal that pulls chariots, or the one who rides it.
Where else “susim” appearsmultitude
Many people gathered, or a great number of something, like an army.
Where else “hamon” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsbe consumed
To be completely destroyed.
Where else “tamu” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “nishlcha” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “nire” appearsThe Hebrew repeats the phrase here with almost the same words, and it has been left that way. It can be understood: what awaits those horses is the same as what awaits the people left in the city; nothing is lost by sending them.
12The king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what Aram has done to us. They know that we are hungry, and they have gone out of the camp to hide in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will seize them alive and get into the city.’”
13 · This verse (above)
14They took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the camp of Aram, saying, “Go and see.”
