Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
So David sent to Tamar at the house, saying, “Please go the house of Amnon your brother and make food for him.”
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him food.
Then Dauid sent home to Tamar, saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house, and dresse him meate.
Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy brother Amnon, and make him a mess.
And David sendeth unto Tamar, to the house, saying, `Go, I pray thee, to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make for him food.'
And David sends to Tamar, to the house, saying, “Now go to the house of your brother Amnon and make food for him.”
Then David sent word to Tamar at his palace, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him.”
So David sent to Tamar at the house, saying, “Please go the house of Amnon your brother and make food for him.”
And David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go, I pray thee, to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress meat for him.
Then David sent a message to Tamar at the palace: “Please be so kind as to go to the house of your brother Amnon and make him some food.”
Then David sent to the house for Tamar and said, Go now to your brother Amnon's house and get a meal for him.
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הַבִּרְיָֽה food H1279 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַבִּרְיָֽה food H1279 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 14 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.
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.
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶל תָּמָ֖ר הַבַּ֣יְתָה לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכִ֣י נָ֗א בֵּ֚ית אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֔יךְ וַעֲשִׂי ל֖וֹ הַבִּרְיָֽה
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποστέλλω δαυίδ πρός θημαρ εἰς ὁ οἶκος λέγω πορεύομαι δή εἰς ὁ οἶκος αμνων ὁ ἀδελφός σύ καί ποιέω αὐτός βρῶμα
And David sent to Themar to the house, saying, Go now to your brother's house, and dress him food.
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 →
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.
וּשְׁלַח דָוִד לְוַת תָּמָר לְבֵיתָא לְמֵימָר אֱזִילִי כְעַן לְבֵית אַמְנוֹן אֲחוּךְ וֶעֱבִידִי לֵיהּ סְעוּדְתָא:
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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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is biryâh (“food”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 13:7 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.
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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.