וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ד ה֥וֹאֶל נָ֖א וְלֵ֣ךְ אֶת עֲבָדֶ֑יךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֲנִ֥י אֵלֵֽךְ
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Kings 6:3
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Kings 6:3 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
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
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King James Version Public Domain
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the one said, “Please be willing and go with your servants.” And he said, “I, I will go.”
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
One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.
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King James Version Public Domain
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And one said, Vouchsafe, I pray thee, to go with thy seruants, and he answered, I will goe.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the one saith, `Be pleased, I pray thee, and go with thy servants;' and he saith, `I -- I go.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the one says, “Please be willing, and go with your servants”; and he says, “I go.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
One of them said, “Please go with your servants.” Elisha answered, “I will go.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the one said, “Please be willing and go with your servants.” And he said, “I, I will go.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And one said, Consent, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he said, I will go.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
One of them asked, “Please come with your servants.” “I'll come,” he replied.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And one said: 'Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.'
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ה֥וֹאֶל
yâʼal
H2974
“be willing”
Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 19× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 18:27
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Hiphil
- Form
- Imperative
- Person
- 2nd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to begin, make a beginning, show willingness, undertake to do, be pleased, be determined
- (Hiphil)
- to agree to, show willingness, acquiesce, accept an invitation, be willing
- to undertake
- to resolve, be pleased, be determined
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הָֽאֶחָ֔ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- ה֥וֹאֶל yâʼal H2974 “be willing” Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- נָ֖א nâʼ H4994 “please” Particle, Exhortation
- וְלֵ֣ךְ yâlak H3212 “and · walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H854 “with” Preposition
- עֲבָדֶ֑יךָ ʻebed H5650 “servants · your” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲנִ֥י ʼănîy H589 “I” Pronoun, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- אֵלֵֽךְ yâlak H3212 “to walk” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
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 →
- 10
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is ה֥וֹאֶל to be willing H2974 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
ה֥וֹאֶל to be willing H2974 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 verbs
- 1 noun
- 1 adjective
- 1 pronoun
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- ה֥וֹאֶל Hiphil · Imperative
- וְלֵ֣ךְ Qal · Imperative
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- אֵלֵֽךְ Qal · Imperfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
4Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 6:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Judges 4:8 Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.
- Judges 19:6 So they sat down, and ate and drink, both of them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.
- 2 Kings 5:23 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him.
- Job 6:28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face.
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.
καί εἶπον ὁ εἷς ἐπιεικῶς δεῦρο μετά ὁ δοῦλος σύ καί εἶπον ἐγώ πορεύομαι
And he said, Go. And one of them said gently, Come with your servants. And he said, I will go.
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)
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.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וַאֲמַר חַד שְׁרֵי כְעַן וַאֲזֵיל עִם עַבְדָךְ וַאֲמַר אֲנָא אֵיזִיל:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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
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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâʼal (“to be willing”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to be willing” (yâʼal) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 18:27, which shares the word «to be willing», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to say” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Kings 6:3 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.
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.
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.