2 Samuel 19:32

World English Bible (2000)

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ הַגִּלְעָדִ֔י יָרַ֖ד מֵרֹגְלִ֑ים וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן לְשַׁלְּח֖וֹ אֶת־*בירדן **הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

Transliteration

û-barzillay the gilʿādî yārad from-mē-rōgəlîm wa-yaʿăbōr ʾet-the melekh the yardēn to-lə-šalləḥô ʾet-the yardēn

Grammar Details

• *û-barzillay*: conjunction + proper noun - and Barzillai
• *gilʿādî*: adjective masculine singular - the Gileadite
• *yārad*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he came down
• *mē-rōgəlîm*: preposition + proper noun - from Rogelim
• *wa-yaʿăbōr*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he crossed over
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *melekh*: noun masculine singular absolute with article - the king
• *yardēn*: proper noun with article - the Jordan
• *lə-šalləḥô*: preposition + piel infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to send him/escort him

Word Meanings

• *yārad*: came down/descended
• *yaʿăbōr*: crossed over/passed over
• *lə-šalləḥô*: to escort him/to send him off/to accompany him

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
• 2 Sam 17:27-29 : 27 It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse], 29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."
• Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
• Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." 4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
• Prov 16:31 : 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
• Gen 5:27 : 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
• Gen 9:29 : 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
• Gen 25:7 : 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
• Gen 47:28 : 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
• Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
• Deut 34:7 : 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.