2 Samuel 1:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַצְּבִי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַל־בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים׃

Transliteration

The ṣəbî yiśrāʾēl on your bāmôtêkā ḥālāl. ʾêk nāplû gibbôrîm.

Grammar Details

*ṣəbî*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the glory/gazelle/beauty
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*bāmôtêkā*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heights
*ḥālāl*: noun, masculine singular - slain
*ʾêk*: interrogative adverb - how
*nāplû*: perfect, 3rd common plural - they fell
*gibbôrîm*: noun, masculine plural - mighty men/warriors

Word Meanings

*haṣṣəbî yiśrāʾēl*: the glory of Israel/the beauty of Israel/O gazelle of Israel
*bāmôtêkā*: your high places/your heights/your mountains
*ḥālāl*: slain/killed/fallen
*ʾêk nāplû gibbôrîm*: how the mighty have fallen!

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 1:27 : 27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2 Sam 1:25 : 25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
Deut 4:7-8 : 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
1 Sam 31:8 : 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
2 Sam 1:23 : 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Isa 53:2 : 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Lam 2:1 : 1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lam 5:16 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Zech 11:7 : 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Zech 11:10 : 10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

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