2 Samuel 21:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר דָּוִד֙ אֶל־הַגִּבְעֹנִ֔ים מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה לָכֶ֑ם וּבַמָּ֣ה אֲכַפֵּ֔ר וּבָרְכ֖וּ אֶת־נַחֲלַ֥ת יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer Dāwid to-the-Gibʿōnîm, "mâ ʾeʿĕśeh to-you? And-in-mâ ʾăkappēr, and-bārĕkû ʾet-naḥălat YHWH?"

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
• *Dāwid*: proper noun - David
• *Gibʿōnîm*: proper noun, plural - Gibeonites
• *mâ*: interrogative pronoun - what
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: qal imperfect 1cs - I shall do
• *ʾăkappēr*: piel imperfect 1cs - I shall make atonement/appease
• *bārĕkû*: piel imperative 2mp - bless/praise (you)
• *naḥălat*: noun, feminine singular construct - inheritance of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name

Word Meanings

• *ʾăkappēr*: make atonement/appease/expiate
• *bārĕkû*: bless/praise/salute
• *naḥălat* *YHWH*: inheritance of YHWH/people of YHWH/land of YHWH

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 20:19 : 19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
• 1 Sam 26:19 : 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
• Exod 32:30 : 30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
• Lev 1:4 : 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
• 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
• Mic 6:6-7 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come(in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;