8
The kingהַמֶּלֶךְsaidוַיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלthe woman,הָאִשָּׁה“Goלְכִיto your house,לְבֵיתֵךְand Iוַאֲנִיwill give ordersאֲצַוֶּהabout you.”עָלָיִךְ
2 Samuel 14:8
Study it in the app“The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders about you.””
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Samuel 14:8, word by word
- The kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- the womanאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- “Goלְכִיlechi
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechi” appears- to your houseבֵיתֵvete
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “vete” appears- will give ordersאֲצַוֶּהatsave
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “atsave” appears
The context
7And look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they have said, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir too.’ So they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave to my husband name or remnant on the face of the ground.”
8 · This verse (above)
9The Tekoite woman said to the king, “On me, my lord the king, be the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne be innocent.”