2 Kings 4:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּצֵ֨א אֶחָ֣ד אֶל־הַשָּׂדֶה֮ לְלַקֵּ֣ט אֹרֹת֒ וַיִּמְצָא֙ גֶּ֣פֶן שָׂדֶ֔ה וַיְלַקֵּ֥ט מִמֶּ֛נּוּ פַּקֻּעֹ֥ת שָׂדֶ֖ה מְלֹ֣א בִגְד֑וֹ וַיָּבֹ֗א וַיְפַלַּ֛ח אֶל־סִ֥יר הַנָּזִ֖יד כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ׃

Transliteration

And yēṣēʾ ʾeḥād unto-the śādeh to-laqqēṭ ʾōrōt and yimṣāʾ gepen śādeh and yəlaqqēṭ from-it paqqūʿōt śādeh məlōʾ bigdô and yābōʾ and yəpallaḥ into-sîr the nāzîd for-not yādāʿû

Grammar Details

*wə-yēṣēʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he went out
*ʾeḥād*: numeral masculine singular - one
*ʾel-ha-śādeh*: preposition + definite article + noun masculine singular - to the field
*lə-laqqēṭ*: preposition + piel infinitive construct - to gather
*ʾōrōt*: noun feminine plural - herbs
*wə-yimṣāʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he found
*gepen*: noun feminine singular construct - vine of
*śādeh*: noun masculine singular - field
*wə-yəlaqqēṭ*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he gathered
*mimmenû*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - from it
*paqqūʿōt*: noun feminine plural - wild gourds
*məlōʾ*: noun masculine singular construct - fullness of
*bigdô*: noun masculine singular + possessive suffix 3rd masculine singular - his garment
*wə-yābōʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he came
*wə-yəpallaḥ*: piel imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - he cut/sliced
*ʾel-sîr*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - into pot of
*ha-nāzîd*: definite article + noun masculine singular - the stew
*kî-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - for not
*yādāʿû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they knew

Word Meanings

*ʾōrōt*: herbs/greens
*gepen śādeh*: wild vine/field vine
*paqqūʿōt*: wild gourds/colocynths (possibly poisonous)
*yəpallaḥ*: cut up/sliced/chopped

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Referenced Verses

Isa 5:4 : 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
Matt 15:13 : 13 But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled;

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