2 Kings 4:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.

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מיצקת

yâtsaq

H3332

“pouring”

Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 52× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 28:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 897

to pour, flow, cast, pour out - (Qal) - to pour, pour out - to cast - to flow - (Hiphil) to pour, pour out - (Hophal) - to be poured - cast, molten (participle) - being firmly established (participle)

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 →

13: words
11: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מיצקת to pour H3332 occurs in 49 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
2 nouns
2 pronouns
4 prepositions

Verb forms

וַתֵּ֨לֶךְ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַתִּסְגֹּ֣ר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
מַגִּשִׁ֥ים Hiphil · Participle Active
מיצקת Hiphil · Participle Active
מוֹצָֽקֶת Hiphil · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בַּעֲדָ֖הּ behind H1157 ×2
מיצקת to pour H3332 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 25 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 4:5 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 5:11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Hebrews 11:7–8 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
1 Kings 17:15–16 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
Luke 1:45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 4:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתֵּ֨לֶךְ֙ מֵֽאִתּ֔וֹ וַתִּסְגֹּ֣ר הַדֶּ֔לֶת בַּעֲדָ֖הּ וּבְעַ֣ד בָּנֶ֑יהָ הֵ֛ם מַגִּשִׁ֥ים אֵלֶ֖יהָ וְהִ֥יא מיצקת מוֹצָֽקֶת

So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 4:5 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποἔρχομαι παρά αὐτός καί ποιέω οὕτως καί ἀποκλείω ὁ θύρα κατά αὐτός καί κατά ὁ υἱός αὐτός αὐτός προςἐγγίζω πρός αὐτός καί αὐτός ἐπιχέω

And she departed from him, and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons: they brought the vessels near to her, and she poured in until the vessels were filled.

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)

וַאֲזַלַת מִלְוָתֵיהּ וַאֲגָפַת דָשָׁא בְּאַפָּהָא וּבְאַפֵּי בְנָהָא אִינוּן מְקַרְבִין לָהּ מָנַיָא וְהִיא מְרִיקָא מִשְׁחָא:

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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 4:5 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

2Ki 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.

Ver. 5. And shut the door, &c.] This her prompt and present obedience was a noble fruit of her heroical faith. She doth not reason, as Naaman did, but run; she doth not dispute, but despatch the prophet’s commands. God loveth Curristas non Quaeristas, saith Luther.

And she poured out.] And the more she poured out, the more she might; the angels making new supplies of oil continually, saith A Lapide.

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

4:5-6 Elisha was absent during the miracle so the woman and her son would recognize that the provision was by the Lord’s power.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5) From him.—Mç’ittô, the correct form. (Comp. 2Ki_3:11.)

Who brought . . . poured out.—There should be a semicolon at “sons.” The rest is literally, They were bringing to her, and she was pouring continually (mĕyaççèqeth, only here). She did not leave her pouring. The story is evidently abridged in this verse.

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

5. who [R.V. they] brought the vessels to her] The R.V. marks that the Hebrew here begins a new clause with a personal pronoun. The widow’s unquestioning obedience, in which her sons also imitated her, has its reward.

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

So she went from him,.... And did as he advised her, borrowed many empty vessels of her neighbours, having faith in what the prophet had said to her:

and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons; and then went to work as she was directed, with her sons:

who brought the vessels to her; the empty ones she had borrowed: and she poured out; the oil out of her pot into them.

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

So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sonsi.e. obeyed exactly the prophet"s orderswho brought the vessels to her; and she poured out; literally, they bringing the vessels to her, and she pouring out. The modus operandi had been left to the woman and her sons, and was thus arranged and ordered, so that there was no confusion nor hurry.

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

the vessels

"the jars"

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)

They would bring [the containers] to her. The vessels.

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.

Lesson kit

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâtsaq (“to pour”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to pour” (yâtsaq) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 28:18, which shares the word «to pour», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “behind” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«וַתֵּ֨לֶךְ֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 25 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“behind” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.