But the wickedוּבְלִיַּעַלare like thornsכְּקוֹץthrown away,מֻנָדall of them,כֻּלָּהַםforכִּיthey are notלֹאtakenיִקָּחוּwith the hand.בְיָד
2 Samuel 23:6
Study it in the app“But the wicked are like thorns thrown away, all of them, for they are not taken with the hand.”
With the Hebrew beneath
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).
Where else “veliyaal” appears- are like thornsקוֹץkots
thorn
Thorn, thornbush.
Where else “kots” appears- thrown awayמֻנָדmunad
be driven away
To be thrown out and left without a place.
Where else “munad” appears- takenיִקָּחוּyikachu
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikachu” appears- with the handיָדyad
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appears
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.”