2 Kings 8:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ מְדַבֵּר֙ אֶל־גֵּ֣חֲזִ֔י נַ֥עַר אִישׁ־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר סַפְּרָה־נָּ֣א לִ֔י אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַגְּדֹל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה אֱלִישָֽׁע׃

Transliteration

And the melek mədabbēr to gēḥăzî naʿar ʾîš-hāʾĕlōhîm saying, sappərâ-nāʾ to me ʾēt all the gədōlôt which ʿāśâ ʾĕlîšāʿ.

Grammar Details

• *melek*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the king
• *mədabbēr*: verb, piel participle, masculine singular - was speaking
• *gēḥăzî*: proper noun - Gehazi
• *naʿar*: noun, masculine singular construct - servant of/attendant of
• *ʾîš-hāʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine singular construct + noun with definite article - man of God
• *sappərâ-nāʾ*: verb, piel imperative, masculine singular + particle of entreaty - please recount/tell
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *gədōlôt*: adjective, feminine plural with definite article - great things/great deeds
• *ʿāśâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - did/performed
• *ʾĕlîšāʿ*: proper noun - Elisha

Word Meanings

• *mədabbēr*: was speaking/was discussing/was conversing
• *naʿar*: servant/attendant/young man
• *sappərâ-nāʾ*: please tell/recount/narrate
• *gədōlôt*: great things/mighty works/wonders

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 5:20-27 : 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? 22 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing. 23 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him. 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed. 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where. 26 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants? 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
• 2 Kgs 6:6 : 6 The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.
• 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. 11 The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel? 12 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.
• 2 Kgs 6:17-20 : 17 Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria. 20 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
• 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?
• 2 Kgs 7:1 : 1 Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
• 2 Kgs 7:3 : 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
• 2 Kgs 7:10 : 10 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
• 2 Kgs 7:16-20 : 16 The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh. 17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. 18 It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria; 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it: 20 it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
• Matt 2:8 : 8 He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him."
• Luke 9:9 : 9 Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.
• Luke 23:8 : 8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
• John 9:27 : 27 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
• Acts 24:24 : 24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Kgs 2:14 : 14 He took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? and when he also had struck the waters, they were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.
• 2 Kgs 2:20-22 : 20 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein. They brought it to him. 21 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying. 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
• 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. There came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and mauled forty-two lads of them.
• 2 Kgs 3:14-16 : 14 Elisha said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you. 15 But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him. 16 He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches.
• 2 Kgs 4:3-6 : 3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4 You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full. 5 So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out. 6 It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.
• 2 Kgs 4:12 : 12 He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.
• 2 Kgs 4:16-17 : 16 He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid. 17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
• 2 Kgs 5:14 : 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.