2 Samuel 13:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְאַמְנ֣וֹן רֵ֗עַ וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יֽוֹנָדָ֔ב בֶּן־שִׁמְעָ֖ה אֲחִ֣י דָוִ֑ד וְי֣וֹנָדָ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ חָכָ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

And to-ʾAmnôn rēaʿ and-šəmô Yônāḏāḇ son-of-Šimʿāh brother-of Dāwid; and-Yônāḏāḇ ʾîš ḥāḵām very.

Grammar Details

• *rēaʿ*: noun masculine singular - friend/companion
• *šəmô*: noun masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - man/person
• *ḥāḵām*: adjective masculine singular - wise/clever/crafty

Word Meanings

• *rēaʿ*: friend/companion/associate
• *Yônāḏāḇ*: Jonadab (name meaning 'YHWH is willing')
• *Šimʿāh*: Shimeah (name meaning 'fame/report')
• *ʾîš*: man/person/individual
• *ḥāḵām*: wise/clever/shrewd/crafty

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 16:9 : 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath Jehovah chosen this.
• 2 Sam 13:32 : 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
• 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead:
• 2 Sam 14:19-20 : 19 And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid; 20 to change the face of the matter hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
• Esth 5:10 : 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.
• Esth 5:14 : 14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
• Esth 6:13 : 13 And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
• Prov 19:6 : 6 Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
• Jas 3:15 : 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
• Gen 3:1 : 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
• Gen 38:1 : 1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
• Gen 38:20 : 20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
• Judg 14:20 : 20 But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.