King James Version
Jonah 3:6 in the King James Version says “For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him wit...” — study this verse from Jonah chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.”
Jonah 3:6 · KJV
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: published: Heb. said nobles: Heb. great men
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
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“came”
H5060properly, to touch, i.e., lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive
“For word”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“and he arose”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“and he laid”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“from him and covered”
H3680properly, to plump, i.e., fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
“him with sackcloth”
H8242properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e., coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grai
“and sat”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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