“And it came to pass” | וַיְהִ֕י | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | came pass |
“after” | מִקֵּ֖ץ | An extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after | after |
“forty” | אַרְבָּעִ֣ים | Forty | forty |
“years,” | שָׁנָ֑ה | A year (as a revolution of time) | years |
“that Absalom” | אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ | Abshalom, a son of David; also (the fuller form) a later Israelite | Absalom |
“said” | וַיֹּ֤אמֶר | To say (used with great latitude) | said |
“unto” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | unto |
“the king,” | הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ | A king | king |
“I pray thee,” | נָּ֗א | 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction | pray |
“let me go” | אֵ֣לֲכָה | To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) | let go |
“and pay” | וַֽאֲשַׁלֵּ֛ם | To be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications) | pay |
“my vow,” | נִדְרִ֛י | A promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised | vow |
“which” | אֲשֶׁר | Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc | which |
“I have vowed” | נָדַ֥רְתִּי | To promise (pos., to do or give something to God) | vowed |
“unto the Lord,” | לַֽיהוָ֖ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
“in Hebron.” | בְּחֶבְרֽוֹן׃ | Chebron, a place in Palestine | Hebron |