Study it in the app“Now then, that I have come to speak this word to the king my lord is because the people made me afraid; and your servant said, ‘Let me speak, please, to the king; perhaps the king will do the word of his servant.”
Now then,וְעַתָּהthatאֲשֶׁרI have comeבָּאתִיto speakלְדַבֵּרthisהַזֶּהwordהַדָּבָרtoאֶלthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְmy lordאֲדֹנִיis becauseכִּיthe peopleהָעָםmade me afraid;יֵרְאֻנִיand your servantוַ שִׁפְחָתְךָsaid,תֹּאמֶר‘Let me speak,אֲדַבְּרָהplease,נָּאtoאֶלthe king;הַמֶּלֶךְperhapsאוּלַיthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְwill doיַעֲשֶׂהthe wordדְּבַרof his servant.אֲמָתוֹ
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “bati” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “daber” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearslord
The one with authority over another; or a respectful title.
Where else “adoni” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsbe fearsome
To be so great or powerful that one inspires awe and respect.
Where else “yeru” appearsfemale slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shifchat” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearsperhaps
Perhaps, maybe.
Where else “ulay” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “yaase” appearsfemale slave, maidservant
Female slave, maidservant.
Where else “amat” appears14For we will surely die, and we are like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; but Elohim does not take away life, and he devises plans so that the banished one may not remain banished from him.
15 · This verse (above)
16For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.’
