1 Kings 21:27

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִי֩ כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ אַחְאָ֜ב אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֤ים הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ וַיִּקְרַ֣ע בְּגָדָ֔יו וַיָּֽשֶׂם־שַׂ֥ק עַל־בְּשָׂר֖וֹ וַיָּצ֑וֹם וַיִּשְׁכַּ֣ב בַּשָּׂ֔ק וַיְהַלֵּ֖ךְ אַֽט׃ ס

Transliteration

wa-yəhî when-kišmōaʿ ʾaḥʾāb ʾet-the-dəbārîm the-ʾēlleh, wa-yiqraʿ bəgādāyw wa-yāśem-śaq on-bəśārô wa-yāṣôm wa-yiškab in-the-śāq wa-yəhallēk ʾaṭ.

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
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*dəbārîm*: noun, masculine plural - words/things
*ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
*wa-yiqraʿ*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and he tore
*bəgādāyw*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his clothes
*wa-yāśem*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and he put
*śaq*: noun, masculine singular - sackcloth
*bəśārô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his flesh/body
*wa-yāṣôm*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and he fasted
*wa-yiškab*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Qal - and he lay
*wa-yəhallēk*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, Piel - and he walked
*ʾaṭ*: adverb - slowly/softly

Word Meanings

*śaq*: sackcloth/sack
*yəhallēk ʾaṭ*: walked slowly/walked softly/went about dejected

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
Gen 37:34 : 34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
2 Sam 3:31 : 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Sam 12:16-17 : 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2 Kgs 18:37 : 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Job 16:15 : 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Isa 38:15 : 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Isa 58:5-8 : 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Joel 1:13 : 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Jonah 3:6 : 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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