2 Kings 15:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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פְּקַחְיָ֥ה

Pᵉqachyâh

H6494

“Pekahiah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6491 and H3050

TWOT: None

Pekahiah = "Jehovah sees" - son of king Menahem of the northern kingdom of Israel, succeeded to the throne as the 17th king and ruled for 2 years when he was murdered by one of the captains of his army, Pekah

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פְּקַחְיָ֥ה Pekahiah H6494 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

פְּקַחְיָ֥ה Pekahiah H6494

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פְּקַחְיָ֥ה Pekahiah H6494 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
2 prepositions

Verb forms

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Kings 15:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב מְנַחֵ֖ם עִם אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ פְּקַחְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו

Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 15:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί κοιμάω μαναημ μετά ὁ πατήρ αὐτός καί βασιλεύω φακεϊας υἱός αὐτός ἀντί αὐτός

And Manaem slept with his fathers; and Phakesias his son reigned in his stead.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּשְׁכִיב מְנַחֵם עִם אֲבָהָתוֹהִי וּמְלַךְ פְּקַחְיָה בְּרֵיהּ תְּחוֹתוֹהִי:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Kings 15:22 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

2Ki 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

Ver. 22. And Pekahiah his son.] Eusebius {a} calleth him Phaceas.

{a} In Chronico.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

22. Pekahiah his son] Ten years of stern rule had enabled Menahem to secure the throne for his son, though the latter had but a short tenure of power.

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

And the rest of the acts of Pekah,.... Not recorded here, were to be read in the book of chronicles of the kings so often referred to.

And the rest of the acts of Pekah,.... Not recorded here, were to be read in the book of chronicles of the kings so often referred to.

2 Kings 15:32

kg2 15:32

kg2 15:32

kg2 15:32In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah king of Israel, began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Pekah began to reign in the fifty second year of Azariah, or Uzziah, which was his last year, Kg2 15:27, and which was the first of Pekah; Uzziah reigned full fifty two, and then Jotham succeeded, which was the beginning of the second of Pekah.

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

And Menahem slept with his fathersi.e. , diedand Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. So Josephus ("Ant. Jud:," 9:11. who calls him "Phakeias."

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pᵉqachyâh (“Pekahiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Pᵉqachyâh carries the sense “Pekahiah.” How does it shape the verse?
The word “Pekahiah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Kings 15:23 shares the word «Pekahiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.