2 Samuel 14:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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לָגַ֥עַת

nâgaʻ

H5060

“to touch”

Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct

Appears 150× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 3:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1293

to touch, reach, strike - (Qal) - to touch - to strike - to reach, extend to - to be stricken - stricken (participle) - (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated - (Piel) to strike - (Pual) to be stricken (by disease) - (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive - to cause to touch, apply - to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come - to approach (of time) - to befall (of fate)

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 →

11: words
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
1 noun
3 prepositions
1 adverb
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
הַֽמְדַבֵּ֤ר Piel · Participle Active
וַֽהֲבֵאת֣וֹ Hiphil · Perfect
יֹסִ֥יף Hiphil · Imperfect
לָגַ֥עַת Qal · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֵלַ֨יִךְ֙ to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 20 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.

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 Samuel 14:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ הַֽמְדַבֵּ֤ר אֵלַ֨יִךְ֙ וַֽהֲבֵאת֣וֹ אֵלַ֔י וְלֹֽא יֹסִ֥יף ע֖וֹד לָגַ֥עַת בָּֽךְ

The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 14:10 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον ὁ βασιλεύς τίς ὁ λαλέω πρός σύ καί ἄγω αὐτός πρός ἐγώ καί οὐ προςτίθημι ἔτι ἅπτομαι αὐτός

And the king said, Who was it that spoke to you? you shall even bring him to me, and one shall not touch him any more.

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲמַר מַלְכָּא מַן דְיֵימַר לִיךְ מִלָא וְתַיְתִינֵיהּ לְוָתִי וְלָא יוֹסִיף עוֹד לְאַנְזָקָה בִיךְ:

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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 Samuel 14:10 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

2Sa 14:10 And the king said, Whosoever saith [ought] unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

Ver. 10. Bring him to me.] This word, Bring him, is spoken to one of David’s officers, saith Vatablus, whom he had assigned for a helper to the woman. Est enim secundae personae masculinum verbum apud Hebraeos.

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 10. Whosoever saith aught unto thee] Neither did this bring the matter to such a bearing that she could come to her conclusion, which was, to get the king pledged by a solemn promise that all proceedings relative to the case should be stopped.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And the king said, whoever saith ought unto thee,.... Demanding her to deliver up her son to justice, and reproaching her for not doing it:

bring him to me; give him in charge to a proper officer to be brought before me, and I shall chastise him for it:

and he shall not touch thee any more; give her any further trouble, by words or deeds.

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

i.e. So as to hurt or molest thee, by pursuing thy son.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

says anything to you

Here speaking threats is spoken of as speaking in general. AT: "threatens you" or "speaks threats to you" (See: Synecdoche)

he will not touch you anymore

Here David speaks of a person not threatening or hurting her, by saying that the person would not touch her. It is implied that David will not allow the person threatening her to bother her again. The full meaning of this statement can be made clear. AT: "I will make sure he does not threaten you again" (See: Metaphor and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

Please, may the king call to mind Yahweh your God

Possible meanings are 1) The phrase "call to mind" is an idiom meaning to pray. AT: "Please, pray to Yahweh your God" or 2) Here "call to mind" means to remember and it is implied that after he remembers Yahweh he will promise in his name. AT: "Please promise in the name of Yahweh your God" (See: Idiom and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

the avenger of blood

This refers to the man who wants to avenge the death of the dead brother. This can be stated clearly. AT: "the man who wants to avenge my son's brother's death" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

destroy anyone further

"cause anyone else to die." This is in addition to the brother who already died.

that they will not destroy my son

"that they will not kill my son" or "that they will not execute my son"

As Yahweh lives

Often people would make promises and compare how surely they would fulfil their promise to how surely Yahweh is alive. AT: "I promise you, as surely as Yahweh lives" or "In Yahweh's name I promise" (See: Simile and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

not one hair of your son will fall to the ground

The means that her son will not be harmed, which is exaggerated by saying that he will not lose even a single hair. AT: "your son will be completely safe" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)

translationWords

call

mind

Yahweh

God

avenge

blood

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

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâgaʻ (“to touch”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to touch” (nâgaʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
What does the repetition of “to” (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?
«וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 20 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“to” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.