וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ סֹ֖ב הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב כֹּ֑ה וַיִּסֹּ֖ב וַֽיַּעֲמֹֽד
The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood still.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Samuel 18:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Samuel 18:30 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
The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood still.
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood still.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king said, “Turn aside, station yourself thus.” And he turned aside, and he stood.
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
The king said, Turn aside, and stand here. He turned aside, and stood still.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
“Move aside,” said the king, “and stand here.” So he stepped aside.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
“Move aside,” said the king, “and stand here.” So he stepped aside.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the king said, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the king said, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the King said vnto him, Turne aside, and stand here. so he turned aside and stoode still.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the king saith, `Turn round, station thyself here;' and he turneth round and standeth still.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king says, “Turn around, station yourself here”; and he turns around and stands still.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the king said, “Turn aside and stand here.” So Ahimaaz turned aside, and stood still.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the king said, “Turn aside, station yourself thus.” And he turned aside, and he stood.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the king said, Turn aside [and] stand here. And he turned aside and stood still.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The king said, “Come and stand here.” He came and stood still.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the king said to him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
“Stand to one side and wait,” the king told him. So Ahimaaz stood to one side and waited.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the king said: 'Turn aside, and stand here.' And he turned aside, and stood still.
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הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב
yâtsab
H3320
“stand”
Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 48× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 2:4
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Hithpael
- Form
- Imperative
- Person
- 2nd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself
- (Hithpael) to station oneself, take one's stand, stand, present oneself, stand with someone
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ melek H4428 “the · king” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- סֹ֖ב çâbab H5437 “turn around” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב yâtsab H3320 “stand” Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כֹּ֑ה kôh H3541 “thus” Adverb
- וַיִּסֹּ֖ב çâbab H5437 “and · to turn around” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַֽיַּעֲמֹֽד ʻâmad H5975 “and · to stand” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב to stand H3320 occurs in 45 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 verbs
- 1 noun
- 1 adverb
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- סֹ֖ב Qal · Imperative
- הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב Hithpael · Imperative
- וַיִּסֹּ֖ב Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַֽיַּעֲמֹֽד Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- סֹ֖ב to turn around H5437 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.
καί εἶπον ὁ βασιλεύς ἐπιστρέφω στηλόω ὧδε καί ἐπιστρέφω καί ἵστημι
And the king said, Turn aside, stand still here. And he turned aside, and stood.
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 מַלְכָּא אִסְתַּחַר אִתְעַתַּד הָכָא וְאִסְתְּחַר וְקָם:
(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
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâtsab (“to stand”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to stand” (yâtsab) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Exodus 2:4, which shares the word «to stand», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to turn around” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» 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 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “to turn around” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 18:30 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
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.