2 KINGS 4:9

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.”

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2 Kings 4:9 Translation & Meaning

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And she said וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ To say (used with great latitude) said
unto אֶל Near, with or among; often in general, to unto
her husband, אִישָׁ֔הּ 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) husband
Behold הִנֵּה Lo! Behold
now, נָ֣א 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction now
I perceive יָדַ֔עְתִּי To know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) perceive
that כִּ֛י (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed that
this ה֑וּא He (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are this
is (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
an holy קָד֣וֹשׁ Sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary holy
man אִ֥ישׁ 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
of God, אֱלֹהִ֖ים Gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative God
which passeth by עֹבֵ֥ר To cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation) passeth
us continually. תָּמִֽיד׃ Properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); elliptically the regular (daily) sacrifice continually

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  • 7  Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

  • 8  And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

  • 9  And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

  • 10  Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

  • 11  And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.




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