What Does 2 Samuel 5:24 Mean?

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

“And let it be when thou hearest”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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

“the sound”

a voice or sound

“of a going”

a march; (concretely) an (ornamental) ankle-chain

“in the tops”

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

“of the mulberry trees”

the weeping tree (some gum-distilling tree, perhaps the balsam)

at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore

“that then thou shalt bestir”

properly, to point sharply, i.e., (literally) to wound; figuratively, to be alert, to decide

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

at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore

“go out”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

“thyself for then shall the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“thee to smite”

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

“the host”

an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e

“of the Philistines”

a pelishtite or inhabitant of pelesheth