2 Samuel 13:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

And after the time of two yeeres, Absalom had sheepesherers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim, and Absalom called all the Kings sonnes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיְהִי֙ לִשְׁנָתַ֣יִם יָמִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֤וּ גֹֽזְזִים֙ לְאַבְשָׁל֔וֹם בְּבַ֥עַל חָצ֖וֹר אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִם־אֶפְרָ֑יִם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם לְכָל־בְּנֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Transliteration

wə-yəhî for-šənātayim yāmîm wə-yihyû gōzəzîm to-ʾAbšālôm in-Baʿal Ḥāṣôr which with-ʾEprāyim wə-yiqrāʾ ʾAbšālôm to-all-bənê the-melek

Grammar Details

• *wə-yəhî*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and it happened
• *šənātayim*: dual noun - two years
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *wə-yihyû*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and there were
• *gōzəzîm*: Qal participle masculine plural - shearers
• *ʾAbšālôm*: proper noun, masculine singular - Absalom
• *Baʿal* *Ḥāṣôr*: proper noun, place name - Baal Hazor
• *ʾEprāyim*: proper noun - Ephraim
• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he called
• *bənê*: masculine plural construct noun - sons of
• *melek*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the king

Word Meanings

• *wə-yəhî*: and it happened/and it came to pass
• *šənātayim*: two years/a two-year period
• *yāmîm*: days/time
• *gōzəzîm*: shearers/sheep-shearers
• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: and he called/and he invited

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 25:4 : 4 And Dauid heard in the wildernesse, that Nabal did shere his sheepe.
• Gen 38:12-13 : 12 And in processe of time also the daughter of Shuah Iudahs wife dyed. Then Iudah, when he had left mourning, went vp to his sheepe sherers to Timnah, he, and his neighbour Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it was tolde Tamar, saying, beholde, thy father in lawe goeth vp to Timnah, to shere his sheepe.
• 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 Now in Maon was a man, who had his possessio in Carmel, & the man was exceeding mightie & had three thousand sheepe, and a thousand goates: and he was shering his sheepe in Carmel.
• 1 Sam 25:7 : 7 Behold, I haue heard, that thou hast sherers: now thy shepherds were with vs, and we did the no hurt, neyther did they misse any thing all the while they were in Carmel.
• 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, and Nabals heart was mery within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, neither lesse nor more, vntil the morning arose.
• 1 Kgs 1:9 : 9 Then Adoniiah sacrificed sheepe and oxen, and fat cattel by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the kings sonnes, & al the men of Iudah ye Kings seruants,
• 1 Kgs 1:19 : 19 And he hath offred many oxen, and fatte cattel, and sheepe, and hath called all the sonnes of the King, and Abiathar the Priest, and Ioab the captaine of the hoste: but Salomon thy seruant hath he not bidden.
• 1 Kgs 1:25 : 25 For hee is gone downe this day, and hath slaine many oxen, and fat cattel, and sheepe, and hath called al the Kings sonnes, and the captaines of the hoste, and Abiathar the Priest: and behold, they eate and drinke before him, and say, God saue King Adoniiah.
• 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Then Mesha King of Moab had store of sheepe, and rendred vnto the King of Israel an hundreth thousande lambes, and an hundreth thousande rammes with the wooll.
• 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 And he built towres in the wildernesse, & digged many cisternes: for he had much cattell both in the valleyes and playnes, plowmen, and dressers of vines in the mountaines, and in Carmel: for he loued husbandrie.