2 Chronicles 18:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ שִׂ֥ימוּ זֶ֖ה בֵּ֣ית הַכֶּ֑לֶא וְהַאֲכִלֻ֜הוּ לֶ֤חֶם לַ֙חַץ֙ וּמַ֣יִם לַ֔חַץ עַ֖ד שׁוּבִ֥י בְשָׁלֽוֹם

Transliteration

wa-ʾămartem kōh ʾāmar ha-melek śîmû zeh bêt ha-keleʾ wə-haʾăkiluhû leḥem laḥaṣ û-mayim laḥaṣ until šûbî bə-šālôm

Grammar Details

*wa-ʾămartem*: conjunction + qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - and you shall say
*kōh*: adverb - thus
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he said
*ha-melek*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the king
*śîmû*: qal imperative masculine plural - put/place
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun masculine singular - this one
*bêt*: masculine singular noun construct - house of
*ha-keleʾ*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the prison
*wə-haʾăkiluhû*: conjunction + hiphil imperative masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and feed him
*leḥem*: masculine singular noun - bread
*laḥaṣ*: masculine singular noun - affliction/distress
*û-mayim*: conjunction + masculine plural noun - and water of
*šûbî*: qal infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my returning
*bə-šālôm*: preposition + masculine singular noun - in peace

Word Meanings

*keleʾ*: prison/confinement/restraint
*leḥem laḥaṣ*: bread of affliction/prison food/food of oppression
*mayim laḥaṣ*: water of affliction/prison water/water of oppression
*šālôm*: peace/safety/well-being

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison - house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
2 Chr 18:15 : 15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?
Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; But the fool beareth himself insolently, and is confident.
Isa 30:20 : 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
Jer 20:2-3 : 2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah. 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
Matt 12:24 : 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.
Luke 3:19-20 : 19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's {G5376} wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, 20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luke 23:2 : 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.
Acts 5:18 : 18 and laid {G846} hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.
Acts 22:22 : 22 And they gave him audience unto this word; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 {G1063} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Rev 11:10 : 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
Deut 29:19 : 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
1 Sam 25:21 : 21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
1 Kgs 22:26-28 : 26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 27 and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. 28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.

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