What Does 2 Samuel 14:13 Mean?

“said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“And the woman”

a woman

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“Wherefore then hast thou thought”

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou

this (often used adverb)

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

“such a thing against the people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“of 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

“doth speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

“for the king”

a king

“this thing”

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

“as one which is faulty”

guilty; hence, presenting a sin-offering

properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n

“doth not fetch home again”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“for the king”

a king

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

“his banished”

to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)