1 Kings 1:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־עֲצָב֨וֹ אָבִ֤יו מִיָּמָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר מַדּ֖וּעַ כָּ֣כָה עָשִׂ֑יתָ וְגַם־ה֤וּא טֽוֹב־תֹּ֙אַר֙ מְאֹ֔ד וְאֹת֥וֹ יָלְדָ֖ה אַחֲרֵ֥י אַבְשָׁלֽוֹם׃

Transliteration

And not atsab him his ab from his yom saying, "Maddua thus asah?" And also he tob-toar me'od, and oto she yalad after Avshalom.

Grammar Details

*atsab*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - he pained/displeased/confronted him
*ab*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his father
*yom*: noun, masculine, plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his days
*Maddua*: interrogative adverb - why
*asah*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have done
*tob*: adjective, masculine, singular - good/handsome
*toar*: noun, masculine, singular - form/appearance
*me'od*: adverb - very/exceedingly
*oto*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him
*yalad*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - she bore/gave birth to
*Avshalom*: proper noun - Absalom

Word Meanings

*lo-atsavo aviv mi-yamav*: his father had never rebuked him/his father had never displeased him in his days
*tob-toar me'od*: very handsome/of very good appearance
*oto yaldah*: she bore him/he was born

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 3:3-4 : 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; 4 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
1 Chr 3:2 : 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Prov 23:13-14 : 13 Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
Heb 12:5-6 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
2 Sam 14:25 : 25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
1 Sam 3:13 : 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.
1 Sam 9:2 : 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1 Sam 10:23 : 23 And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

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4And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.
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