1 Kings 2:37

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ בְּי֣וֹם צֵאתְךָ֗ וְעָֽבַרְתָּ֙ אֶת־נַ֣חַל קִדְר֔וֹן יָדֹ֥עַ תֵּדַ֖ע כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת תָּמ֑וּת דָּמְךָ֖ יִהְיֶ֥ה בְרֹאשֶֽׁךָ׃

Transliteration

And hāyâ in day-of your ṣēʾtəkā and ʿābartā ʾet-naḥal qidrôn, yādōaʿ tēdaʿ that môt tāmût; your dāməkā yihyeh on your rōʾšekā.

Grammar Details

*hāyâ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - will be/happen
*ṣēʾtəkā*: qal infinitive construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your going out
*ʿābartā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you cross over
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*naḥal*: masculine singular construct - brook/stream of
*qidrôn*: proper noun - Kidron
*yādōaʿ*: qal infinitive absolute - surely/certainly
*tēdaʿ*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will know
*môt*: qal infinitive absolute - surely/certainly
*tāmût*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will die
*dāməkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your blood
*yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be
*rōʾšekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your head

Word Meanings

*hāyâ*: will be/happen/come to pass
*ṣēʾtəkā*: your going out/your departure
*ʿābartā*: you cross over/pass over/traverse
*naḥal*: brook/stream/wadi/valley
*yādōaʿ*: surely/certainly/indeed
*tēdaʿ*: you will know/understand/be aware
*môt*: surely/certainly/definitely
*tāmût*: you will die/shall die
*dāməkā*: your blood/your bloodguilt
*rōʾšekā*: your head/upon yourself

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 1:16 : 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 15:23 : 23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
Josh 2:19 : 19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
Ezek 18:13 : 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
John 18:1 : 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
2 Chr 29:16 : 16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Jer 31:40 : 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
1 Kgs 2:33 : 33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

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