2 Samuel 18:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּנָּ֤גְפוּ שָׁם֙ עַ֣ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִפְנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֑ד וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֞ם הַמַּגֵּפָ֧ה גְדוֹלָ֛ה בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא עֶשְׂרִ֥ים אָֽלֶף׃

Transliteration

wa-yinnāgəp̄û there ʿam Yiśrāʾēl before ʿaḇdê Dāwid wa-təhî-there ha-maggēp̄āh gədôlāh in-ha-yôm ha-hûʾ twenty thousand.

Grammar Details

*wa-yinnāgəp̄û*: waw-consecutive + niphal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they were defeated
*ʿam*: common noun, masculine singular construct - people of
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - Israel
*lip̄nê*: preposition + common noun masculine plural construct - before
*ʿaḇdê*: common noun, masculine plural construct - servants of
*Dāwid*: proper noun, masculine singular - David
*wa-təhî*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - and there was
*ha-maggēp̄āh*: definite article + common noun, feminine singular - the slaughter/defeat/plague
*gədôlāh*: adjective, feminine singular - great/large
*ha-yôm*: definite article + common noun, masculine singular - the day
*ha-hûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
*ʿeśrîm ʾālep̄*: numeral + common noun, masculine singular - twenty thousand

Word Meanings

*nāgap̄*: to strike/defeat/smite
*ʿam*: people/troops
*ʿeḇed*: servant/official/subject
*maggēp̄āh*: defeat/slaughter/plague

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 2:17 : 17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2 Sam 2:31 : 31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
2 Sam 15:6 : 6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Sam 19:41-43 : 41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Chr 13:16-17 : 16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. 17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chr 28:6 : 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
Prov 11:21 : 21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
Prov 24:21 : 21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

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