2 Kings 3:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמֵישַׁ֥ע מֶֽלֶךְ־מוֹאָ֖ב הָיָ֣ה נֹקֵ֑ד וְהֵשִׁ֤יב לְמֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאָה־אֶ֣לֶף כָּרִ֔ים וּמֵ֥אָה אֶ֖לֶף אֵילִ֥ים צָֽמֶר׃

Transliteration

û-Mêšaʿ king-of-Môʾāb hāyāh nōqēd wĕ-hēšîb to-king-of-Yiśrāʾēl hundred-thousand kārîm and-hundred thousand ʾêlîm ṣāmer.

Grammar Details

*û-Mêšaʿ*: conjunction + proper name - and Mesha
*Môʾāb*: proper name - Moab
*hāyāh*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he was
*nōqēd*: qal participle, masculine singular - sheep breeder/raiser
*wĕ-hēšîb*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he returned/rendered
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper name - Israel
*kārîm*: masculine plural noun - lambs
*ʾêlîm*: masculine plural noun - rams
*ṣāmer*: masculine singular noun - wool

Word Meanings

*nōqēd*: sheep breeder/sheep owner/shepherd
*wĕ-hēšîb*: rendered/paid/returned as tribute
*kārîm*: lambs/young sheep
*ʾêlîm*: rams/male sheep

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 8:2 : 2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
1 Chr 18:2 : 2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
2 Chr 26:10 : 10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Job 1:3 : 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Job 42:12 : 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Ps 60:8 : 8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out{H8686)} my shoe: Philistia, triumph{H8708)} thou because of me.
Ps 108:9-9 : 9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. 10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Isa 16:1-2 : 1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Gen 13:2 : 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Gen 26:13-14 : 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

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