Hebrew Interlinear
2 Kings 3:4 Interlinear
“And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster and rendered king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs an hundred thousand rams with the wool”
Word-by-Word Analysis
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | וּמֵישַׁ֥ע | H4338 | And Mesha | mesha, a moabite |
| 2 | לְמֶֽלֶךְ | H4428 | king | a king |
| 3 | מוֹאָ֖ב | H4124 | of Moab | moab, an incestuous son of lot; also his territory and descendants |
| 4 | הָיָ֣ה | H1961 | to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | |
| 5 | נֹקֵ֑ד | H5349 | was a sheepmaster | a spotter (of sheep or cattle), i.e., the owner or tender (who thus marks them) |
| 6 | וְהֵשִׁ֤יב | H7725 | and rendered | to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); |
| 7 | לְמֶֽלֶךְ | H4428 | king | a king |
| 8 | יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | H3478 | of Israel | he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity |
| 9 | וּמֵ֥אָה | H3967 | an hundred | a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction |
| 10 | אֶ֖לֶף | H505 | thousand | hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand |
| 11 | כָּרִ֔ים | H3733 | lambs | a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting) |
| 12 | וּמֵ֥אָה | H3967 | an hundred | a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction |
| 13 | אֶ֖לֶף | H505 | thousand | hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand |
| 14 | אֵילִ֥ים | H352 | rams | properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically an oak or other strong tree |
| 15 | צָֽמֶר׃ | H6785 | with the wool | wool |
Verse Context
2 Kings 3:3 unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat ...
2 Kings 3:4 (current)And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster and rendered king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs an hundred thousand rams with the wool
2 Kings 3:5 was dead But it came to pass when Ahab rebelled against the king of Moab...