What Does 2 Samuel 7:14 Mean?

i

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

“I will be his father”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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

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

“and he shall be my son”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

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

“If he commit iniquity”

to crook, literally or figuratively

“I will chasten”

to be right (i.e., correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict

“him with the rod”

a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

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)

“and with the stripes”

a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)

“and he shall be my son”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of men”

ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)