King James Version
2 Kings 1:8 in the King James Version says “And they answered him, He was an hairy man , and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elija...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they answered him, He was an hairy man , and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
2 Kings 1:8 · KJV
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? What: Heb. What was the manner of the man
And they answered him, He was an hairy man , and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
KJV Study — Public Domain
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“man”
H1167a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
“about his loins”
H4975properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
“It is Elijah”
H452elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other israelites
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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