2 Samuel
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2 Samuel 1:1
וַיְהִ֗י אַֽחֲרֵי֙ מ֣וֹת שָׁא֔וּל וְדָוִ֣ד שָׁ֔ב מֵהַכּ֖וֹת אֶת הָעֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב דָּוִ֛ד בְּצִקְלָ֖ג יָמִ֥ים שְׁנָֽיִם
and to be · after · death of · Saul · and David · to return · from to strike · - · the Amalek · and to dwell · David · in/at Ziklag · days · two
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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of 2 Samuel — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 335
- דָּוִד H1732 Dâvid David 285
- מֶ֫לֶךְ H4428 melek king 284
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 208
- בֵּן H1121 bên son 207
- הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 154
- בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 149
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 146
- אִישׁ H376 ʼîysh man 141
- יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 Yisrâʼêl Israel 118
- בית H1004 bayith house 114
- עֶ֫בֶד H5650 ʻebed servant 107
About this book
- 24 Chapters
- 695 Verses
- 11,130 Hebrew words
- 1,289 Distinct lemmas
2 Samuel is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 24 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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