2 Samuel 9:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁתַּ֕חוּ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר מֶ֣ה עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֣י פָנִ֔יתָ אֶל־הַכֶּ֥לֶב הַמֵּ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּמֽוֹנִי׃

Transliteration

wa-yištaḥû wa-yōʾmer meh ʿabdekā kî pānîtā ʾel-hak-keleb ham-mēt ʾăšer kāmônî

Grammar Details

*wa-yištaḥû*: waw consecutive + hishtaphel imperfect 3ms - and he bowed down
*wa-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
*meh*: interrogative - what?
*ʿabdekā*: noun + 2ms suffix - your servant
*kî*: conjunction - that/for
*pānîtā*: qal perfect 2ms - you have turned/regarded
*ʾel-hak-keleb*: preposition + definite article + noun - to the dog
*ham-mēt*: definite article + adjective ms - the dead
*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/who
*kāmônî*: preposition + 1cs suffix - like me

Word Meanings

*pānîtā*: turned to/looked upon/regarded/paid attention to
*hak-keleb* *ham-mēt*: dead dog - expression of extreme self-abasement

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 16:9 : 9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Matt 15:26-27 : 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
1 Sam 24:14-15 : 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
2 Sam 3:8 : 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

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1And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
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