וַיֹּ֖אמֶר קְרָא לָ֑הּ וַיִּקְרָא לָ֔הּ וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד בַּפָּֽתַח
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Kings 4:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 4:15 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said, “Call to her.” And he called to her, and she stood at the entrance.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then said he, Cal her. And hee called her, and shee stoode in the doore.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he saith, `Call for her;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth at the opening,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he says, “Call for her”; and he calls for her, and she stands at the opening,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
So Elisha answered, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said, “Call to her.” And he called to her, and she stood at the entrance.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he said, Call her; and he called her; and she stood in the doorway.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Elisha said, “Ask her to come back.” So Gehazi called her, and she came and stood by the door.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he said: 'Call her.' And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
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בַּפָּֽתַח
pethach
H6607
“in/at the · doorway”
Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 164× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 4:7
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
opening, doorway, entrance
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- קְרָא qârâʼ H7121 “call” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַיִּקְרָא qârâʼ H7121 “and · to call” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד ʻâmad H5975 “and · to stand” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- בַּפָּֽתַח pethach H6607 “in/at the · doorway” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 7
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 4 verbs
- 1 noun
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- קְרָא Qal · Imperative
- וַיִּקְרָא Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- קְרָא to call H7121 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 10 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 7 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 10 words vs World English Bible 14. 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.
καί καλέω αὐτός καί ἵστημι παρά ὁ θύρα
And he called her, and she stood by the door.
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)
וַאֲמַר קְרֵי לָהּ וּקְרָא לָהּ וְקָמַת בְּתַרְעָא:
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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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pethach (“doorway”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “doorway” (pethach) shape what this verse is saying?
- “to call” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “to call” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 4:15 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.