2 KINGS 1:7

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?”

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2 Kings 1:7 Translation & Meaning

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And he said וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר Perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue said
unto אֲלֵהֶ֔ם Near, with or among; often in general, to unto
them, What מֶ֚ה Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses them What
manner מִשְׁפַּ֣ט Properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style manner
of man הָאִ֔ישׁ A man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation) man
was he (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
which אֲשֶׁ֥ר Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc which
came up עָלָ֖ה To ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative came up
to meet לִקְרַאתְכֶ֑ם An encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite) meet
you, and told וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר Perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue told
you אֶת Properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) you
these הָאֵֽלֶּה׃ These or those these
words? הַדְּבָרִ֖ים A word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause words

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  • 5  And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?

  • 6  And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

  • 7  And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

  • 8  And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

  • 9  Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.




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