2 Kings 6:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַחַ֣ד מֵֽעֲבָדָ֔יו ל֖וֹא אֲדֹנִ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ כִּֽי־אֱלִישָׁ֤ע הַנָּבִיא֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַגִּיד֙ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת־הַ֨דְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּ֖ר בַּחֲדַ֥ר מִשְׁכָּבֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

And-wə-yō'mer 'aḥad from-ʿăḇāḏāyw: No, 'ăḏōnî the-meleḵ, for-'ĕlîšāʿ the-nāḇî' who [is] in-yiśrā'ēl yaggîḏ to-meleḵ yiśrā'ēl the-dəḇārîm which tədabbēr in-ḥăḏar miškāḇeḵā.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yō'mer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
• *'aḥad*: cardinal number masculine singular - one
• *ʿăḇāḏāyw*: masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his servants
• *lô'*: negative particle - no/not
• *'ăḏōnî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my lord
• *ha-meleḵ*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the king
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *'ĕlîšāʿ*: proper noun - Elisha
• *ha-nāḇî'*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the prophet
• *yiśrā'ēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *yaggîḏ*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he tells/he informs
• *meleḵ*: masculine singular construct noun - king of
• *ha-dəḇārîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the words/matters
• *tədabbēr*: piel imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you speak
• *ḥăḏar*: masculine singular construct noun - chamber of
• *miškāḇeḵā*: masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your bedroom/bedchamber

Word Meanings

• *ha-nāḇî'*: the prophet/the seer/the spokesman
• *yaggîḏ*: tells/reveals/discloses
• *ḥăḏar miškāḇeḵā*: your bedroom/your private chamber/your inner chamber

Referenced Verses

• Dan 2:28-30 : 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these: 29 as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen. 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
• Dan 2:47 : 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret.
• Dan 4:9-9 : 9 Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it. 10 Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great. 11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth. 12 The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it. 13 I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky. 14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches. 15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth: 16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let a animal's heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him. 17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men. 18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
• Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, Unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
• 2 Kgs 5:3 : 3 She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
• 2 Kgs 5:8 : 8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
• 2 Kgs 5:13-15 : 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean? 14 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.
• 2 Kgs 6:9-9 : 9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down. 10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
• Ps 139:1-4 : 1 > Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
• Eccl 10:20 : 20 Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; And don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: For a bird of the sky may carry your voice, And that which has wings may tell the matter.
• Isa 29:15 : 15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
• Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
• Dan 2:22-23 : 22 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. 23 I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.