He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
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He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And he said to them, “What the custom of the man who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
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He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
And he saide vnto them, What maner of man was he which came and met you, and tolde you these wordes?
And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words?
And he saith unto them, `What `is' the fashion of the man who hath come up to meet you, and speaketh unto you these words?'
And he says to them, “What [is] the fashion of the man who has come up to meet you, and speaks these words to you?”
Ahaziah said to his messengers, “What sort of man was he, the one who came up to meet you and said these words to you?”
And he said to them, “What the custom of the man who came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
And he said to them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?
He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came up to meet you and told you these words?”
And he said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
“What was he like, this man who met you and told you all this?” the king asked.
And he said to them, What sort of a man was it who came and said these words to you?
And he said unto them: 'What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?'
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 35 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 35 words vs World English Bible 21. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מֶ֚ה מִשְׁפַּ֣ט הָאִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָלָ֖ה לִקְרַאתְכֶ֑ם וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם אֶת הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה
He said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί λαλέω πρός αὐτός λέγω τίς ὁ κρίσις ὁ ἀνήρ ὁ ἀναβαίνω εἰς συνάντησις σύ καί λαλέω πρός σύ ὁ λόγος οὗτος
So they returned and reported to the king as Eliu said: and he said to them, What was the manner of the man who went up to meet you, and spoke to you these words?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וּמַלֵיל עִמְהוֹן מָא נִמוֹסָא דְגַרְבָא דְסָלֵיק לִקֳדָמוּתְכוֹן וּמַלֵיל עִמְכוֹן יַת פִּתְגָמַיָא הָאִלֵין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qirʼâh (“to meet”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 1:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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