2 Samuel 19:32

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ הַגִּלְעָדִ֔י יָרַ֖ד מֵרֹגְלִ֑ים וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן לְשַׁלְּח֖וֹ אֶת־*בירדן **הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

Transliteration

û-barzillay the gilʿādî yārad from-mē-rōgəlîm wa-yaʿăbōr ʾet-the melekh the yardēn to-lə-šalləḥô ʾet-the yardēn

Grammar Details

• *û-barzillay*: conjunction + proper noun - and Barzillai
• *gilʿādî*: adjective masculine singular - the Gileadite
• *yārad*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he came down
• *mē-rōgəlîm*: preposition + proper noun - from Rogelim
• *wa-yaʿăbōr*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he crossed over
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *melekh*: noun masculine singular absolute with article - the king
• *yardēn*: proper noun with article - the Jordan
• *lə-šalləḥô*: preposition + piel infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to send him/escort him

Word Meanings

• *yārad*: came down/descended
• *yaʿăbōr*: crossed over/passed over
• *lə-šalləḥô*: to escort him/to send him off/to accompany him

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
• 2 Sam 17:27-29 : 27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse], 29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
• Job 1:3 : 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
• Ps 90:3-9 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
• Prov 16:31 : 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.
• Gen 5:27 : 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
• Gen 9:29 : 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: And he died.
• Gen 25:7 : 7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.
• Gen 47:28 : 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.
• Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
• Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.