1 Kings 22:25

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And Michea sayde: Behold, thou shalt see in that day when thou shalt go from chamber to chamber to hyde thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔יְהוּ הִנְּךָ֥ רֹאֶ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּבֹ֛א חֶ֥דֶר בְּחֶ֖דֶר לְהֵחָבֵֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾmer Mîkāyəhû, behold-you rōʾeh in-the-yôm the-that when tāb̄ōʾ ḥeder bə-ḥeder lēhēḥāb̄ēh.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
• *Mîkāyəhû*: proper noun - Micaiah
• *rōʾeh*: qal participle ms - seeing
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
• *tāb̄ōʾ*: qal imperfect 2ms - you will enter
• *ḥeder*: masculine singular noun - room/chamber
• *bə-ḥeder*: preposition + masculine singular noun - in [another] room
• *lēhēḥāb̄ēh*: preposition + niphal infinitive construct - to hide yourself

Word Meanings

• *rōʾeh*: seeing/looking/observing
• *yôm*: day/time/period
• *tāb̄ōʾ*: you will enter/come/go
• *ḥeder*: room/chamber/inner room/private room
• *lēhēḥāb̄ēh*: to hide yourself/conceal yourself

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphec into the citie, and there fell a wall vpon twentie and seuen thousande of the men that were left: And Benhadad fled, and came into the citie, from chamber to chamber.
• Isa 9:14-16 : 14 Therefore hath the Lorde rooted out of Israel both head and tayle, bough and reede in one day. 15 By the head, is vnderstande the senatour and honourable man, and by the tayle, the prophete that preached lyes. 16 For the guides of this people are deceauers, and those that be gouerned are vtterly lost.
• Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes concerning these prophetes: Beholde, I wyll feede them with wormewood, and make them drinke the water of gall: For from the prophetes of Hierusalem is hypocrisie come into all the lande.
• Jer 28:16-17 : 16 And therfore thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, I wyll sende thee out of the lande, and within a yere thou shalt dye, because thou hast falsely spoken agaynst the Lorde. 17 So Hananias dyed the same yere in the seuenth moneth.
• Jer 29:21-22 : 21 Thus hath the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel spoken of Ahab the sonne of Colaiah, and of Zedekiah the sonne of Maasiah, which prophecie lyes vnto you in my name: Beholde, I wyll deliuer them into the hande of Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon, that he may slay them before your eyes. 22 And all the prisoners of Iuda that are in Babylon, shall take this tearme of cursyng, and say: Nowe God do vnto thee as he did vnto Zedekiah & Ahab, whom the kyng of Babylon rosted in the fire:
• Jer 29:32 : 32 Therfore thus the Lorde doth certifie you, Beholde, I wyll visite Semeiah the Nehelamite and his seede, so that none of his shall remayne among this people, and none of them shall see the good that I wyll do for my people, saith the Lorde: for he hath preached falsely of the Lorde.
• Amos 7:17 : 17 Therfore thus sayth the Lorde, Thy wyfe shalbe an harlot in the citie, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sworde, and thy land shalbe deuided by line, and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely go into captiuitie foorth of his lande.
• 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 There were false prophetes also among the people, eue as there shalbe false teachers among you, whiche pryuyly shal bryng in damnable heresies, euen denying the Lorde that hath bought them, and bryng vpo them selues swyft damnation.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with hym that false prophete that wrought miracles before hym, with which he deceaued them that receaued the beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast quicke into a ponde of fire, burnyng with brymstone:
• Num 31:8 : 8 And they slue the kynges of Madian among other that were slayne: Namelye, Eui, and Rekem, Zur, & Hur, and Reba: fiue kynges of Madian, with Balaam the sonne of Beor, whom they slue with the sworde.