King James Version
2 Kings 4:19 in the King James Version says “And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.”
2 Kings 4:19 · KJV
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“unto his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“My head”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“My head”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“to a lad”
H5288(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latit
“Carry”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“him to his mother”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
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