1 Kings 22:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Micaiah saith, `If thou at all return in peace -- Jehovah hath not spoken by me;' and he saith, `Hear, O peoples, all of them.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔יְהוּ אִם־שׁ֤וֹב תָּשׁוּב֙ בְּשָׁל֔וֹם לֹֽא־דִבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה בִּ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁמְע֖וּ עַמִּ֥ים כֻּלָּֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾmer Mîkāyəhû, if šôb̄ tāšûb̄ in-šālôm, lōʾ-dibber YHWH in-me. wə-yōʾmer, šimʿû ʿammîm all-of-them.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he said
• *Mîkāyəhû*: proper noun - Micaiah
• *šôb̄*: qal infinitive absolute - returning
• *tāšûb̄*: qal imperfect 2ms - you return
• *šālôm*: masculine singular noun - peace
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *dibber*: piel perfect 3ms - he has spoken
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *šimʿû*: qal imperative mp - hear
• *ʿammîm*: masculine plural noun - peoples
• *kullām*: masculine plural noun with 3mp suffix - all of them

Word Meanings

• *šôb̄ tāšûb̄*: surely return/indeed return [emphatic construction]
• *šālôm*: peace/safety/welfare/prosperity
• *dibber*: spoken/declared/commanded
• *šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey/heed
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/tribes

Referenced Verses

• Mic 1:2 : 2 Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the Lord Jehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.
• Num 16:29 : 29 if according to the death of all men these die -- or the charge of all men is charged upon them -- Jehovah hath not sent me;
• Deut 18:20-22 : 20 `Only, the prophet who presumeth to speak a word in My name -- that which I have not commanded him to speak -- and who speaketh in the name of other gods -- even that prophet hath died. 21 `And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? -- 22 that which the prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, and the thing is not, and cometh not -- it `is' the word which Jehovah hath not spoken; in presumption hath the prophet spoken it; -- thou art not afraid of him.
• 1 Kgs 18:21-24 : 21 and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, `Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah `is' God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word. 22 And Elijah saith unto the people, `I -- I have been left a prophet of Jehovah -- by myself; and the prophets of Baal `are' four hundred and fifty men; 23 and let them give to us two bullocks, and they choose for themselves the one bullock, and cut it in pieces, and place `it' on the wood, and place no fire; and I -- I prepare the other bullock, and have put `it' on the wood, and fire I do not place; -- 24 and ye have called in the name of your god, and I -- I call in the name of Jehovah, and it hath been, the god who answereth by fire -- He `is' the God.' And all the people answer and say, `Good `is' the word.'
• 1 Kgs 18:36-37 : 36 And it cometh to pass, at the going up of the `evening-'present, that Elijah the prophet cometh nigh and saith, `Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to-day let it be known that Thou `art' God in Israel, and I Thy servant, that by Thy word I have done the whole of these things; 37 answer me, O Jehovah, answer me, and this people doth know that Thou `art' Jehovah God; and Thou hast turned their heart backward.'
• 2 Kgs 1:10 : 10 And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto the head of the fifty, `And if I `am' a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire cometh down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.
• 2 Kgs 1:12 : 12 And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto them, `If I `am' a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire of God cometh down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.
• 2 Chr 18:27 : 27 And Micaiah saith, `If thou dost certainly return in peace, Jehovah hath not spoken by me;' and he saith, `Hear ye, O peoples, all of them!'
• Isa 44:26 : 26 Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,
• Jer 28:8-9 : 8 The prophets who have been before me, and before thee, from of old, even they prophesy concerning many lands, and concerning great kingdoms, of battle, and of evil, and of pestilence. 9 The prophet who doth prophesy of peace -- by the coming in of the word of the prophet, known is the prophet that Jehovah hath truly sent him.'
• Amos 3:1 : 1 Hear ye this word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
• Mark 7:14-15 : 14 And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, `Hearken to me, ye all, and understand; 15 there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.
• Mark 12:37 : 37 therefore David himself saith of him Lord, and whence is he his son?' And the great multitude were hearing him gladly,
• Acts 13:10-11 : 10 said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? 11 and now, lo, a hand of the Lord `is' upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead `him' by the hand;