2 Samuel 11:21
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”
נָגַשׁ
to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back
מִי
who?
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מִי
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
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עֶבֶד
servant/ your
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עֶבֶד
Servant, slave. Ebed. Moses was called the servant of the LORD, the highest honour. The greatest in God's kingdom is the servant of all.
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מוּת
he has died
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מוּת
To die, to be put to death. Muth. The sting of death is sin. But death has been swallowed up in victory. Jesus holds the keys of death.
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בֵּן
the son of
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בֵּן
Son. Ben. A son with full rights. You are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Full rights. Full access. Full inheritance.
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עַל
on/ him
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עַל
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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גַּם
also
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גַּם
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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רֶכֶב
an upper mill-stone
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רֶכֶב
a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. the upper millstone
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נָכָה
did he strike down
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נָכָה
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
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שָׁלַךְ
did she throw
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שָׁלַךְ
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
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יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת
Jerub-Besheth
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יְרֻבֶּשֶׁת
Jerubbesheth, a symbolic name for Gideon
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פֶּלַח
a mill-stone
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פֶּלַח
a slice
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