Study it in the app“The ferry was crossing to bring across the king’s household and to do what was good in his eyes. And Shimei son of Gera fell down before the king as he was crossing the Jordan,”
The ferryהָעֲבָרָהwas crossingוְעָבְרָהto bring acrossלַעֲבִירthe king’sהַמֶּלֶךְhouseholdבֵּיתand to doוְלַעֲשׂוֹתwhat was goodהַטּוֹבin his eyes.בְּעֵינָיוAnd Shimeiוְשִׁמְעִיsonבֶןof Geraגֵּרָאfell downנָפַלbeforeלִפְנֵיthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְas he was crossingבְּעָבְרוֹthe Jordan,בַּיַּרְדֵּן
ford, ferry
A place where a river is crossed: a ford. In 2 Samuel 19:18 it may also be the boat used to cross. It comes from the verb "cross, pass over". It is a very rare word.
Where else “avara” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “avra” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearshousehold
The family, everyone living under one roof.
Where else “bet” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tov” appearssight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “enay” appearsShimei
Shimei, the name of many men; among them a son of Gershon, grandson of Levi (Exodus 6:17), and the Benjaminite of Saul's family who cursed David as he fled from Absalom (2 Samuel 16:5-13; 19:16-23). It means "heard".
Where else “shimi” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ven” appearsGera
Gera, the name of several men of the tribe of Benjamin; among them the father of Ehud and the father of Shimei.
Where else “gera” appearsfall prostrate
To fall facedown, or embrace someone.
Where else “nafal” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fene” appearsJordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appears“The ferry”: the Hebrew word appears very few times and can also be “the ford” (the river crossing). “As he was crossing”: the Hebrew does not say whether the one crossing was Shimei or the king.
Jordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
17With him were a thousand men from Benjamin, and Ziba, the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed into the Jordan before the king.
18 · This verse (above)
19and he said to the king, “Let not my lord hold iniquity against me, and do not remember what your servant did with iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.
