1 Samuel 2:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֖ה מֵמִ֣ית וּמְחַיֶּ֑ה מוֹרִ֥יד שְׁא֖וֹל וַיָּֽעַל׃

Transliteration

YHWH mēmît and məḥayyeh; môrîd šəʾôl and wayyāʿal.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*mēmît*: Hiphil participle masculine singular - causes to die/kills
*məḥayyeh*: Piel participle masculine singular - gives life/revives
*môrîd*: Hiphil participle masculine singular - brings down/causes to descend
*šəʾôl*: noun masculine/feminine singular - Sheol/underworld/grave
*wayyāʿal*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular apocopated - and he brings up

Word Meanings

*mēmît*: causes to die/kills/puts to death
*məḥayyeh*: gives life/revives/makes alive
*môrîd*: brings down/causes to descend
*šəʾôl*: Sheol/underworld/grave/realm of the dead
*wayyāʿal*: and he brings up/raises up/lifts up

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:39 : 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Isa 26:19 : 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Hos 6:1-2 : 1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Jonah 2:2-6 : 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Job 5:18 : 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Rev 1:18 : 18 {G2532} I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
1 Sam 20:3 : 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
Ps 68:20 : 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Matt 12:40 : 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
John 5:25-29 : 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you , The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

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