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The kingהַמֶּלֶךְsaidוַיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלhis servants,עֲבָדָיו“Do you notהֲלוֹאknowתֵדְעוּthatכִּיa commanderשַׂרand a great manוְגָדוֹלhas fallenנָפַלthisהַזֶּהdayהַיּוֹםin Israel?בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל
2 Samuel 3:38
Study it in the app“The king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a commander and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Samuel 3:38, word by word
- The kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- his servantsעֲבָדָיavaday
servant
Someone who works for another, or a king's official.
Where else “avaday” appears- knowתֵדְעוּtedu
know
To know something, realize.
Where else “tedu” appears- a commanderשַׂרsar
chief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sar” appears- and a great manגָדוֹלgadol
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gadol” appears- has fallenנָפַלnafal
fall in battle
To die in battle, killed by the enemy.
Where else “nafal” appears- dayיּוֹםyom
today
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appears- in Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears
The context
37So all the people and all Israel knew on that day that it had not been from the king to put to death Abner son of Ner.
38 · This verse (above)
39And I am soft today, though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are harder than I. May YHWH repay the one who does evil according to his evil!”