King James Version
1 Kings 13:30 in the King James Version says “And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!”
1 Kings 13:30 · KJV
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. torn: Heb. broken
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“his carcase”
H5038a flabby thing, i.e., a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
“and they mourned”
H5594properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as middle easterners do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“my brother”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
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