1 Kings 21:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֛י כִּשְׁמֹ֥עַ אַחְאָ֖ב כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת נָב֑וֹת וַיָּ֣קָם אַחְאָ֗ב לָרֶ֛דֶת אֶל־כֶּ֛רֶם נָב֥וֹת הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֖י לְרִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃ ס

Transliteration

wa-yəhî when-kišmōaʿ ʾaḥʾāb that mēt nābôt, wa-yāqām ʾaḥʾāb to-go-down to-kerem nābôt the-yizrəʿēʾlî to-take-possession-of-it.

Grammar Details

• *wa-yəhî*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and it happened
• *kišmōaʿ*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - when hearing
• *ʾaḥʾāb*: proper name, masculine - Ahab
• *mēt*: perfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - he died/was dead
• *nābôt*: proper name, masculine - Naboth
• *wa-yāqām*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and he arose
• *kerem*: noun, masculine singular construct - vineyard of
• *yizrəʿēʾlî*: gentilic adjective, masculine singular - Jezreelite
• *lərištô*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to take possession of it

Word Meanings

• *lāredet*: to go down/to descend
• *lərištô*: to take possession of it/to inherit it/to seize it

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 1:13-16 : 13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed? 15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. 16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
• 2 Sam 4:9-9 : 9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? 12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
• 2 Sam 11:25-27 : 25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. 26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
• 2 Sam 23:15-17 : 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
• Ps 50:18 : 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
• Obad 1:12-14 : 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
• Rom 1:32 : 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;