2 Kings 19:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּסַּ֣ע וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃

Transliteration

wa-yissaʿ wa-yēlek̲ wa-yāšāḇ sanḥērîḇ melek̲-ʾaššûr, wa-yēšeḇ in-nînəwēh.

Grammar Details

• *wa-yissaʿ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he broke camp/journeyed
• *wa-yēlek̲*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he went
• *wa-yāšāḇ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he returned
• *sanḥērîḇ*: proper noun - Sennacherib
• *melek̲*: noun, masculine singular construct - king of
• *ʾaššûr*: proper noun - Assyria
• *wa-yēšeḇ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he dwelt
• *bə-nînəwēh*: preposition + proper noun - in Nineveh

Word Meanings

• *wa-yissaʿ*: journeyed/set out/departed
• *wa-yēšeḇ*: dwelt/resided/stayed

Referenced Verses

• Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
• 2 Kgs 19:7 : 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
• 2 Kgs 19:28 : 28 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
• 2 Kgs 19:33 : 33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
• Gen 10:11-12 : 11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
• Jonah 3:2-9 : 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
• Nah 1:1 : 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• Nah 2:8 : 8 But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry]; but none looketh back.
• Matt 12:41 : 41 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.