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They got upוַיָּקוּמוּat twilightבַנֶּשֶׁףto goלָבוֹאtoאֶלthe campמַחֲנֵהof Aram;אֲרָםand they cameוַיָּבֹאוּtoעַדthe edgeקְצֵהof the campמַחֲנֵהof Aram,אֲרָםand there wasוְהִנֵּהnoאֵיןoneאִישׁthere.שָׁם
2 Kings 7:5
Study it in the app“They got up at twilight to go to the camp of Aram; and they came to the edge of the camp of Aram, and there was no one there.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Kings 7:5, word by word
- They got upיָּקוּמוּyakumu
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakumu” appears- at twilightנֶּשֶׁףneshef
twilight
When it grows dark at evening.
Where else “neshef” appears- to goבוֹאvo
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “vo” appears- the campמַחֲנֵהmachane
camp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appears- of Aramאֲרָםaram
Aram
Aram, a son of Shem; also the land of the Arameans (Syria) and its people; also other men.
Where else “aram” appears- the edgeקְצֵהketse
end
The place where something ends: its edge or farthest point.
Where else “ketse” appears- oneאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears
The context
4If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we will die there; and if we sit here, we will die. So now, come, let us go over to the camp of Aram. If they let us live, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die.”
5 · This verse (above)
6Adonai had caused the camp of Aram to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, the sound of a great force; and they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”