“And when Rehoboam” | רְחַבְעָם֮ | Rechabam, an Israelite king | Rehoboam |
“was come” | וַיָּבֹ֣א | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | come |
“to Jerusalem,” | יְרֽוּשָׁלִַם֒ | Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine | Jerusalem |
“he gathered” | וַיַּקְהֵל֩ | To convoke | gathered |
“of the house” | בֵּ֨ית | A house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.) | house |
“of Judah” | יְהוּדָ֜ה | Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory | Judah |
“and Benjamin” | וּבִנְיָמִ֗ן | Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory | Benjamin |
“an hundred” | מֵאָ֨ה | A hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction | hundred |
“and fourscore” | וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים | Eighty, also eightieth | fourscore |
“thousand” | אֶ֛לֶף | Hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand | thousand |
“chosen” | בָּח֖וּר | Properly, to try, i.e., (by implication) select | chosen |
“men,” | | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | |
“which were warriors,” | עֹשֵׂ֣ה | To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application | warriors |
“to fight” | לְהִלָּחֵם֙ | To feed on; by implication, to battle (as destruction) | fight |
“against” | עִם | Adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English) | against |
“Israel,” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
“that he might bring” | לְהָשִׁ֥יב | To turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again | might bring |
“the kingdom” | הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה | Dominion, i.e., (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm) | kingdom |
“again to Rehoboam.” | לִרְחַבְעָֽם׃ | Rechabam, an Israelite king | again Rehoboam |