2 Kings 14:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹא־דִבֶּ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה לִמְחוֹת֙ אֶת־שֵׁ֣ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיּ֣וֹשִׁיעֵ֔ם בְּיַ֖ד יָרָבְעָ֥ם בֶּן־יוֹאָֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

Wə-lōʾ-dibber YHWH li-mḥôth ʾeth-shēm yiśrāʾēl mi-taḥath ha-shāmāyim wa-yôshîʿēm bə-yad yārābəʿām ben-yôʾāsh

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *dibber*: piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he spoke
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *li*: preposition - to
• *mḥôth*: qal infinitive construct - blot out
• *ʾeth*: direct object marker
• *shēm*: construct masculine singular - name of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *mi*: preposition - from
• *taḥath*: preposition - under
• *ha*: definite article - the
• *shāmāyim*: masculine plural - heavens
• *wa*: consecutive prefix - and
• *yôshîʿēm*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he saved them
• *bə*: preposition - by
• *yad*: construct feminine singular - hand of
• *yārābəʿām*: proper noun - Jeroboam
• *ben*: construct masculine singular - son of
• *yôʾāsh*: proper noun - Joash

Word Meanings

• *li-mḥôth*: to blot out/to erase/to wipe away
• *mi-taḥath ha-shāmāyim*: from under heaven [idiom for completely]
• *bə-yad*: by the hand of/through/by means of

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 But Jehovah was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
• 2 Kgs 13:5 : 5 (And Jehovah gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime.
• Ps 69:28 : 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
• Hos 1:6-7 : 6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [Jehovah] said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them. 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
• Rom 11:2-9 : 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 7 What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he {G2013} obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: 8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made {G1519} a snare, and {G1519} a trap, And {G1519} a stumblingblock, and {G1519} a recompense unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always. 11 I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Rev 3:5 : 5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
• Exod 32:32-33 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
• Deut 9:14 : 14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
• Deut 25:19 : 19 Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
• 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.