2 Kings 17:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֥עַל מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֖וּר בְּכָל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיַּ֙עַל֙ שֹׁמְר֔וֹן וַיָּ֥צַר עָלֶ֖יהָ שָׁלֹ֥שׁ שָׁנִֽים׃

Transliteration

wə-yaʿal melek-ʾashshūr in-all-the-ʾereṣ wə-yaʿal shōmerōn wə-yāṣar against-her shālōsh shānîm.

Grammar Details

*wə*: conjunction - and
*yaʿal*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - he went up to
*melek*: construct state, masculine singular - king of
*ʾashshūr*: proper noun - Assyria
*bə-kol-hā-ʾereṣ*: preposition with particle and definite noun - in all the land
*shōmerōn*: proper noun - Samaria
*yāṣar*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - he besieged
*ʿāleyhā*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - against her
*shālōsh*: numeral feminine - three
*shānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years

Word Meanings

*yaʿal*: went up/invaded/attacked
*ʾereṣ*: land/territory/earth
*yāṣar*: besieged/encircled/laid siege

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Referenced Verses

Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
2 Kgs 18:9 : 9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Kgs 25:1-3 : 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jer 52:4-5 : 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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