The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
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The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
And the woman conceived, and she bore a son in that season, according to the time of reviving, as Elisha had spoken to her.
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The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
So the woman conceiued, and bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.
And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.
And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto her.
And the woman conceives and bears a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.
But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time in the following year, as Elisha had said to her.
And the woman conceived, and she bore a son in that season, according to the time of reviving, as Elisha had spoken to her.
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that appointed time in the next year as Elisha had said to her.
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.
But the woman did indeed become pregnant, and the next year around that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had promised her.
Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
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וַתַּ֥הַר to conceive H2029 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 12 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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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.
וַתַּ֥הַר הָאִשָּׁ֖ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן לַמּוֹעֵ֤ד הַזֶּה֙ כָּעֵ֣ת חַיָּ֔ה אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֵלֶ֖יהָ אֱלִישָֽׁע
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐν γαστήρ λαμβάνω ὁ γυνή καί τίκτω υἱός εἰς ὁ καιρός οὗτος ὡς ὁ ὥρα ζάω ὡς λαλέω πρός αὐτός ελισαιε
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the very time, as the season was, being alive, as Elisaie said to her.
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 →
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וְעַדִיאַת אִתְּתָא וִילֵידַת בָּר לְזִמְנָא הָדֵין כְּעִדַן דְהִיא קַיָמָא דִי מַלֵיל עִמָהּ אֱלִישָׁע:
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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 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is hârâh (“to conceive”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 4:17 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.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.