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The kingהַמֶּלֶךְwent out,וַיֵּצֵאand allוְכָלthe peopleהָעָםafter him,בְּרַגְלָיוand they stoppedוַיַּעַמְדוּat Beth-merhak.בֵּית הַמֶּרְחָק
2 Samuel 15:17
Study it in the app“The king went out, and all the people after him, and they stopped at Beth-merhak.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Samuel 15:17, word by word
- The kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- went outיֵּצֵאyetse
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- after himרַגְלָיraglay
follow
Literally "the foot": where someone goes; walking behind them.
Where else “raglay” appears- and they stoppedיַּעַמְדוּyaamdu
stop
To halt, cease doing something.
Where else “yaamdu” appears- at Beth-merhakבֵּיתbet
Beth-merhak
"The far house": the last house on the way out of Jerusalem, or a place so called, where David stopped as he fled (2 Samuel 15:17).
Where else “bet” appears
Translation note
“Beth-merhak” (“the far house”): the last house of the city, or a place so called.
The context
16The king went out, and all his household after him, and the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.
17 · This verse (above)
18All his servants were passing beside him, and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come after him from Gath, were passing before the king.