2 Kings 9:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ לְקָבְרָ֑הּ וְלֹא־מָ֣צְאוּ בָ֗הּ כִּ֧י אִם־הַגֻּלְגֹּ֛לֶת וְהָרַגְלַ֖יִם וְכַפּ֖וֹת הַיָּדָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And yēlkû to qābrāh; and lōʾ-māṣĕʾû in her kî ʾim-hagulgōlet and hāraglayim and kappôt hayyādāyim.

Grammar Details

*yēlkû*: Qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - they went
*qābrāh*: Qal infinitive construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - to bury her
*lōʾ-māṣĕʾû*: negative particle with Qal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - they did not find
*kî ʾim*: conjunctive particles - except/but only
*hagulgōlet*: definite article with common noun, feminine singular - the skull
*hāraglayim*: definite article with common noun, feminine dual - the feet
*kappôt*: common noun, feminine plural construct - palms of
*hayyādāyim*: definite article with common noun, feminine dual - the hands

Word Meanings

*qābrāh*: to bury her/for her burial
*māṣĕʾû*: found/discovered
*hagulgōlet*: skull/cranium
*kappôt*: palms/hand palms

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Referenced Verses

Job 31:3 : 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Isa 14:18-20 : 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
Jer 22:19 : 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jer 36:30 : 30 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because {G3739} he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

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