2 Samuel 23:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּכְא֥וֹר בֹּ֖קֶר יִזְרַח־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בֹּ֚קֶר לֹ֣א עָב֔וֹת מִנֹּ֥גַהּ מִמָּטָ֖ר דֶּ֥שֶׁא מֵאָֽרֶץ

Transliteration

And kəʾôr bōqer yizraḥ-šāmeš; bōqer lōʾ ʿāḇôṯ, minnōgah mimmāṭār dešeʾ mēʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*û-*: conjunction - and
*kə-*: preposition - like/as
*ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular construct - light of
*bōqer*: noun, masculine singular - morning
*yizraḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it shines
*šāmeš*: noun, feminine singular - sun
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʿāḇôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - clouds
*min-*: preposition - from
*nōgah*: noun, masculine singular - brightness
*māṭār*: noun, masculine singular - rain
*dešeʾ*: noun, masculine singular - grass/vegetation
*mē-*: preposition - from
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

*ʾôr*: light/brightness
*bōqer*: morning/dawn
*yizraḥ*: rises/shines/dawns
*ʿāḇôṯ*: clouds/thickness/darkness
*nōgah*: brightness/radiance/light
*dešeʾ*: grass/green herb/vegetation

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Referenced Verses

Judg 5:31 : 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Ps 72:6 : 6 He shall come down{H8799)} like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Ps 89:36 : 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Mic 5:7 : 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Mal 4:2 : 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, 79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
John 1:7 : 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
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 60:1 : 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Isa 60:3 : 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isa 60:18-20 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Hos 6:3 : 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Ps 110:3 : 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

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