2 Samuel 9:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁתַּ֕חוּ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מֶ֣ה עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פָנִ֔יתָ אֶל־הַכֶּ֥לֶב הַמֵּ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּמֽוֹנִי׃

Transliteration

wa-yištaḥû wa-yōʾmer meh ʿabdekā kî pānîtā ʾel-hak-keleb ham-mēt ʾăšer kāmônî

Grammar Details

*wa-yištaḥû*: waw consecutive + hishtaphel imperfect 3ms - and he bowed down
*wa-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
*meh*: interrogative - what?
*ʿabdekā*: noun + 2ms suffix - your servant
*kî*: conjunction - that/for
*pānîtā*: qal perfect 2ms - you have turned/regarded
*ʾel-hak-keleb*: preposition + definite article + noun - to the dog
*ham-mēt*: definite article + adjective ms - the dead
*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/who
*kāmônî*: preposition + 1cs suffix - like me

Word Meanings

*pānîtā*: turned to/looked upon/regarded/paid attention to
*hak-keleb* *ham-mēt*: dead dog - expression of extreme self-abasement

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 16:9 : 9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Matt 15:26-27 : 26 And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. 27 But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
1 Sam 24:14-15 : 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Jehovah: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
2 Sam 3:8 : 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David; and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman.

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