What Does 2 Samuel 11:20 Mean?

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

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“arise”

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

“wrath”

heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

“And if so be that the king's”

a king

“and he say”

to say (used with great latitude)

what (is) known?; i.e., (by implication) (adverbially) why?

“unto thee Wherefore approached ye so nigh”

to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causati

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto the city”

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

“when ye did fight”

to feed on; figuratively, to consume

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“knew”

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

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

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“ye not that they would shoot”

properly, to flow as water (i.e., to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e., to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“from the wall”

a wall of protection