2 Samuel 23:6

“But the wicked are like thorns thrown away, all of them, for they are not taken with the hand.”

2 Samuel 23:6 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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2 Samuel 23:6, word by word

But the wickedבְלִיַּעַלveliyaal

worthlessness, wickedness

Worthlessness, a thing of no value: "sons of belial" are worthless people who do evil. Later it was used as a name for the evil one (2 Corinthians 6:15).

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are like thornsקוֹץkots

thorn

Thorn, thornbush.

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thrown awayמֻנָדmunad

be driven away

To be thrown out and left without a place.

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takenיִקָּחוּyikachu

take

To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.

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with the handיָדyad

hand

The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.

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The context

5For is not my house so with El? For an eternal covenant he has set for me, ordered in all things and secured. For all my salvation and all my delight, will he not make them sprout?

6 · This verse (above)

7The man who touches them will be filled with iron and the shaft of a spear, and with fire they will be utterly burned in their place.”

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