What Does 2 Kings 5:7 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“had read”

to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

“And it came to pass when the king”

a king

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the letter”

properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book

“that he rent”

to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)

“his clothes”

a covering, i.e., clothing

“and said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“Am I God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

i

“to kill”

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

“and to make alive”

to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“that this man”

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

“doth send”

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto me to recover”

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e., remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

“a man”

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)

“of his leprosy”

leprosy

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“wherefore”

a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only

“consider”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction

“I pray you and see”

to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“how he seeketh a quarrel”

to approach; hence, to meet in various senses

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