King James Version
2 Samuel 4:1 in the King James Version says “And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.”
2 Samuel 4:1 · KJV
And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: other: Heb. second
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
KJV Study — Public Domain
“heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“his hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the Israelites”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“were troubled”
H926to tremble inwardly (or palpitate), i.e., (figuratively) be (causative, make) (suddenly) alarmed or agitated; by implication to hasten anxiously
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