2 Samuel 13:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And after the tyme of two yeres, Absalom had sheepe shearers in the playne of Hazor beside Ephraim, & bade all the kinges sonnes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיְהִי֙ לִשְׁנָתַ֣יִם יָמִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֤וּ גֹֽזְזִים֙ לְאַבְשָׁל֔וֹם בְּבַ֥עַל חָצ֖וֹר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִם־אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם לְכָל־בְּנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Transliteration

wə-yəhî for-šənātayim yāmîm wə-yihyû gōzəzîm to-ʾAbšālôm in-Baʿal Ḥāṣôr which with-ʾEprāyim wə-yiqrāʾ ʾAbšālôm to-all-bənê the-melek

Grammar Details

• *wə-yəhî*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and it happened
• *šənātayim*: dual noun - two years
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *wə-yihyû*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and there were
• *gōzəzîm*: Qal participle masculine plural - shearers
• *ʾAbšālôm*: proper noun, masculine singular - Absalom
• *Baʿal* *Ḥāṣôr*: proper noun, place name - Baal Hazor
• *ʾEprāyim*: proper noun - Ephraim
• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he called
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct noun - sons of
• *melek*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the king

Word Meanings

• *wə-yəhî*: and it happened/and it came to pass
• *šənātayim*: two years/a two-year period
• *yāmîm*: days/time
• *gōzəzîm*: shearers/sheep-shearers
• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: and he called/and he invited

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 25:4 : 4 And Dauid hearde in the wildernesse, that Nabal did sheare his sheepe.
• Gen 38:12-13 : 12 And in processe of tyme, the daughter of Sua Iudas wyfe dyed: Then Iudas when he had left mournyng, went vnto his sheepe shearers to Thinmath, he and his friende Hirah of Adulam. 13 And one tolde Thamar, saying: beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Thimnath to sheare his sheepe.
• 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 And ther was a man in Maon, whose possession was in Carmel, and the man was exceeding mightie, and had three thousande sheepe & a thousand goates: And he was shearing his sheepe in Carmel.
• 1 Sam 25:7 : 7 Beholde I haue hearde say that thou hast shearers: Nowe, thy shepheardes were with vs, & we did them no spite, neither was there ought missing vnto them al the while they were in Carmel:
• 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and beholde, he held a feast in his house lyke the feast of a king, and Nabals heart was mery within hym, for he was very drunken: Wherfore she tolde him nothyng neither lesse nor more, vntyll the morowe mornyng.
• 1 Kgs 1:9 : 9 And Adonia sacrificed sheepe, and oxen, and fat cattel, by the stone of Zoheleth, whiche is by the well of Rogel, and called all his brethren the kinges sonnes, and all the men of Iuda the kinges seruauntes:
• 1 Kgs 1:19 : 19 And he hath offered oxen, fat cattel, and many sheepe, and hath called all the sonnes of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Ioab the captayne of the hoast: But Solomon thy seruaunt hath he not bydden.
• 1 Kgs 1:25 : 25 For he is gone downe this day, & hath slayne oxen, & fat cattell, and sheepe a great meany, & hath called al the kinges sonnes, and the captaynes of the hoast, and Abiathar the priest: And beholde, they eate & drinke before him, and say: God saue king Adonia.
• 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 And Mesa king of Moab was a lorde of sheepe, and rendered vnto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambes, and an hundred thousand rammes with the wooll.
• 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 And he built towres in the wildernesse, and digged many welles: For he had much cattaile in the valleyes & playnes, plowmen and vinedressers in the mountaines and in Charmel: for he loued husbandry.