2 Kings 19:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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גִּדְּפ֛וּ

gâdaph

H1442

“to revile”

Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural

Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 15:30

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 317

to revile men, blaspheme God - (Piel) - to revile (between men) - to blaspheme (God)

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 →

22: words
17: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גִּדְּפ֛וּ to revile H1442 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גִּדְּפ֛וּ to revile H1442 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 verbs
8 nouns
2 prepositions
2 adverbs
4 particles

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
תֹאמְר֖וּן Qal · Imperfect
אָמַ֣ר Qal · Perfect
תִּירָא֙ Qal · Jussive
שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ Qal · Perfect
גִּדְּפ֛וּ Piel · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר to say H559 ×3
כֹּ֥ה thus H3541 ×2
אֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 35 words from the Hebrew and 37 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 22 Hebrew tokens and 26 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 19:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 18:17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings 18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
Isaiah 37:6–38 Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
2 Chronicles 20:15 and he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Don't be afraid you, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Exodus 14:13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
Leviticus 26:8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 20:3–4 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Joshua 11:6 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
2 Kings 6:16 He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
2 Kings 18:30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 20:17 You shall not need to fight in this [battle]: set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed: tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you.
Isaiah 41:10–14 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 51:7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults.
Revelation 13:6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
2 Kings 18:22–25 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 74:23 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
Isaiah 51:12–13 I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

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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 19:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יְשַֽׁעְיָ֔הוּ כֹּ֥ה תֹאמְר֖וּן אֶל אֲדֹֽנֵיכֶ֑ם כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אַל תִּירָא֙ מִפְּנֵ֤י הַדְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר גִּדְּפ֛וּ נַעֲרֵ֥י מֶֽלֶךְ אַשּׁ֖וּר אֹתִֽי

Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 19:6 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον αὐτός ησαιας ὅδε εἶπον πρός ὁ κύριος σύ ὅδε λέγω κύριος μή φοβέω ἀπό ὁ λόγος ὅς ἀκούω ὅς βλασφημέω ὁ παιδάριον βασιλεύς ἀσσύριος

And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you⌃ say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן יְשַׁעְיָהוּ כִּדְנַן תֵּימְרוּן לְרִבּוֹנְכוֹן כִּדְנַן אֲמַר יְיָ לָא תִדְחַל מִן קֳדָם פִּתְגָמַיָא דִשְׁמַעְתָּא דַחֲסִידוּ עוּלֵימֵי מַלְכָּא דְאַתּוּר קֳדָמָי:

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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 19:6 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

COMFORTED BY ISAIAH. (Kg2 19:6-7)

Isaiah said . . . Be not afraid--The prophet's answer was most cheering, as it held out the prospect of a speedy deliverance from the invader. The blast, the rumor, the fall by the sword, contained a brief prediction that was soon fulfilled in all the three particulars--namely, the alarm that hastened his retreat, the destruction that overtook his army, and the violent death that suddenly ended his career.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ki 19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Ver. 6. With which the servants.] Heb., The lads, younkers, or striplings: so they are called by way of contempt.

Have blasphemed me.] By railing upon thee, which is blasphemy in the second table; besides the deep dishonour they have done me, by matching me with their base born idols. {2Ki 18:35}

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

(6) The servants.—Or, attendants. The word is rather more special in sense than servant, denoting Apparently personal attendant. Delitzsch renders “squires.”. (Comp. 2Ki_4:12; 2Ki_5:20; 2Ki_8:4; Exo_33:11; Jdg_7:10; 2Sa_9:9; 1Ki_20:15.)

Blasphemed.—Not the same root as in 2Ki_19:3. (Psa_44:16; Isa_51:7; Num_15:30.)

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

6. Be not afraid of the words which [R.V. that] thou hast heard, with which [R.V. wherewith] &c.] These slight changes make the rendering like that in Isaiah, where the Hebrew corresponds exactly.

God’s prophet sets down the threats and insults of Rab-shakeh as ‘words’ and no more. That there is a degree of contempt in the whole sentence is shewn in the words for ‘servants’ which is not the same as that so rendered in verse 6, but may be rendered ‘young men’ (the LXX has παιδάρια), not that Rab-shakeh and his comrades were young, but the words of Isaiah estimate their boasts and threatenings as ‘young men’s words’.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master. Isaiah seems to have been ready with a reply. The news of the words spoken by Rabshakeh had probably flown through the city, and reached him, and he had already laid the matter before God, and received God"s instructions concerning it. He was therefore able to return an answer at once. Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants rather, lackeys ; the term used is not the common one for "servants," viz. ydeb, but a contemptuous one, yre "foot-boys," or "lackeysof the King of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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 22 words (17 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gâdaph (“to revile”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to revile” (gâdaph) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Numbers 15:30 shares the word «to revile» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to say” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיֹּ֤אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 22 Hebrew ↔ 26 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“to say” occurs 3× in this single verse.
17 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 22 words in this verse.