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You areאַתֶּםmy brothers;אַחַיyou areאַתֶּםmy boneעַצְמִיand my flesh.וּבְשָׂרִיWhy thenוְלָמָּהshould you beתִהְיוּthe lastאַחֲרֹנִיםto bring backלְהָשִׁיבthe king?’הַמֶּלֶךְ
2 Samuel 19:12
Study it in the app“You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Samuel 19:12, word by word
- my brothersאַחַaach
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “aach” appears- my boneעַצְמִatsmi
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmi” appears- and my fleshבְשָׂרִvesari
flesh
The body of a person or animal, the soft part covering the bones.
Where else “vesari” appears- should you beתִהְיוּtihyu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tihyu” appears- the lastאַחֲרֹנִיםacharonim
last
What comes at the end or goes behind something else.
Where else “acharonim” appears- to bring backהָשִׁיבhashiv
bring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “hashiv” appears- the king?’מֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears
The context
11King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why should you be the last to bring back the king to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king, to his house?
12 · This verse (above)
13And to Amasa say, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? So may Elohim do to me, and so may he add, if you do not become commander of the army before me all the days in place of Joab.’”