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He brought upוַיַּעַלfrom thereמִשָּׁםthe bonesעַצְמוֹתof Saulשָׁאוּלandוְthe bonesעַצְמוֹתof Jonathanיְהוֹנָתָןhis son,בְּנוֹand they gatheredוַיַּאַסְפוּthe bonesעַצְמוֹתof those who had been hanged.הַמּוּקָעִים
2 Samuel 21:13
Study it in the app“He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Samuel 21:13, word by word
- He brought upיַּעַלyaal
bring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “yaal” appears- the bonesעַצְמוֹתatsmot
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmot” appears- of Saulשָׁאוּלshaul
Saul
Saul, the name of several people. The best known is the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, the first king of Israel. A king of Edom and a son of Simeon also bear it. It means "asked for".
Where else “shaul” appears- of Jonathanיְהוֹנָתָןyehonatan
Jonathan
Jonathan: the long form ("Jehonathan") of the same name as יוֹנָתָן; the Hebrew uses both for the same people, and this translation spells them alike. It means "YHWH has given".
Where else “yehonatan” appears- his sonבְּנben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- and they gatheredיַּאַסְפוּyaasfu
assemble
To bring people together in one place.
Where else “yaasfu” appears- of those who had been hangedמּוּקָעִיםmukaim
hang
To expose someone as punishment, suspended.
Where else “mukaim” appears
The context
12David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the lords of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck Saul on Gilboa.
13 · This verse (above)
14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that Elohim heeded the plea for the land.