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2 Kings 4:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 4:32 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.
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2 Kings 4:32 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/2-kings/4/32.

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When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Elisha entered the house, and behold, the young man was dead, having been laid on his bed.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Then came Elisha into the house, and beholde, the childe was dead, and layed vpon his bedde.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Elisha cometh in to the house, and lo, the youth is dead, laid on his bed,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Elisha comes into the house, and behold, the youth is dead, laid on his bed,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Elisha arrived at the house, the child was dead and was still on the bed.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Elisha entered the house, and behold, the young man was dead, having been laid on his bed.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Elisha got to the house, there was the boy, lying dead on his bed.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

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Shared distinctive vocabulary

מִטָּתֽוֹ bed H4296 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַיָּבֹ֥א Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • מֵ֔ת Qal · Participle Active
  • מֻשְׁכָּ֖ב Hophal · Participle Passive

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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 9 Hebrew tokens and 16 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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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 4:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 17:17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
  • Luke 8:52–53 All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping."
  • John 11:17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Kings 4:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּבֹ֥א אֱלִישָׁ֖ע הַבָּ֑יְתָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנַּ֨עַר֙ מֵ֔ת מֻשְׁכָּ֖ב עַל מִטָּתֽוֹ

When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 4:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰςἔρχομαι ελισαιε εἰς ὁ οἶκος καί ἰδού ὁ παιδάριον θνήσκω κοιμίζω ἐπί ὁ κλίνη αὐτός

And Elisaie went into the house, and, behold, the dead child was laid upon his bed.

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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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַאֲתָא אֱלִישָׁע לְבֵיתָא וְהָא רַבְיָא מִית רְמֵי עַל עַרְסֵיהּ:

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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 4:32 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 4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.

Ver. 32. And laid upon his bed.] See on ver. 21.

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.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 32. Behold, the child was dead] The prophet then saw that the body and spirit of the child were separated.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

32. upon his bed] i.e. Elisha’s bed, in the chamber which was set apart for the prophet and in which the mother had left her child.

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 when Elisha was come into the house,.... Of the Shunamite, and into the chamber built for him:

behold, the child was dead, and laid upon the bed; upon his bed, and where he found it really dead.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

32. The child was dead — This statement, as well as that of 2Ki_4:20, clearly forbids the supposition that the child had merely fainted, or fallen into a trance. He was really, not merely apparently, dead.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed (comp. ver. 21). The child remained where his mother had laid him.

Vers. 32-37.

The relation of prayer to secondary causes.

when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead," etc. The death of the Shunammite"s son, as we have seen in the preceding verses, was in many senses to her a very severe trial a trial from which we have inferred that great trials often spring from great mercies; that great trials should be patiently endured; and that great trials might have a blessed end. By prayer Elisha now raised the woman"s dead boy to life. See what Elisha did here.

I HE PRAYED TO THE LORD. "Let this child"s soul come into him again.

II HE PUT HIMSELF INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE CHILD. Mouth to the child"s mouth, eyes to the child"s eyes, hands to the child"s hands, as if he transfused all the vital magnetism of his own nature into the person of the dead child.

III HE PERSEVERED WITH THE EFFORT. Until the child"s flesh waxed warm, and the child sneezed with the breath of new life. D.T.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

So Elisha went in and shut the door on the child and himself

"So Elisha went by himself into the room where the child lay, closed the door"

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miṭṭâh (“bed”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “bed” (miṭṭâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 47:31, which shares the word «bed», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «וַיָּבֹ֥א» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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