2 Samuel 19:35

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר בַּרְזִלַּ֖י אֶל־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כַּמָּ֗ה יְמֵי֙ שְׁנֵ֣י חַיַּ֔י כִּי־אֶעֱלֶ֥ה אֶת־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ יְרוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃

Transliteration

wa-yōʾmer barzillay ʾel-the melekh how many-kammāh yəmê šənê ḥayyay that-kî-ʾeʿĕleh ʾet-the melekh yərûšālāim

Grammar Details

• *wa-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
• *barzillay*: proper noun - Barzillai
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
• *melekh*: noun masculine singular absolute with article - the king
• *kammāh*: interrogative + preposition - how many
• *yəmê*: noun masculine plural construct - days of
• *šənê*: noun feminine plural construct - years of
• *ḥayyay*: noun masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my life
• *kî*: conjunction - that
• *ʾeʿĕleh*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I should go up
• *ʾet*: preposition with
• *yərûšālāim*: proper noun - Jerusalem

Word Meanings

• *kammāh*: how many/how long
• *yəmê šənê ḥayyay*: days of the years of my life/lifespan/remaining lifetime
• *ʾeʿĕleh*: I should go up/I would go up

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 15:33 : 33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
• Ezra 2:65 : 65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.
• Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off{H8804)}, and we fly away{H8799)}.
• Eccl 2:8 : 8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
• Eccl 12:1-5 : 1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
• Heb 5:14 : 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
• 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
• Neh 7:67 : 67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
• Job 6:30 : 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
• Job 12:11 : 11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
• Exod 2:8 : 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
• Exod 12:4 : 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
• 2 Sam 13:25 : 25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.