King James Version
2 Kings 4:20 in the King James Version says “And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.”
2 Kings 4:20 · KJV
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.
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And when he had taken”
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])
“he sat”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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