וָאֲכַלֵּ֥ם וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם וְלֹ֣א יְקוּמ֑וּן וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ תַּ֥חַת רַגְלָֽי
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise: Yes, they are fallen under my feet.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Samuel 22:39
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Samuel 22:39 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
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise: Yes, they are fallen under my feet.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise: Yes, they are fallen under my feet.
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King James Version Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And I devour them, and I shatter them, and they do not arise, but they fall under my feet.
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
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise: Yes, they are fallen under my feet.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
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King James Version Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise: Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, that they cannot arise; yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Yea, I haue consumed them and thrust them through, and they shall not arise, but shall fall vnder my feete.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And I consume them, and smite them, And they rise not, and fall under my feet.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And I consume them, and strike them, || And they do not rise, and fall under my feet.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
I devoured them and smashed them; they cannot rise. They have fallen under my feet.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And I devour them, and I shatter them, and they do not arise, but they fall under my feet.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And I have consumed them and have crushed them, and they rose not again; Yea, they fell under my feet.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they have fallen under my feet.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
I struck them down—they couldn't get up. They fell at my feet.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, that they cannot arise; yea, they are fallen under my feet.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם
mâchats
H4272
“and · to shatter · them”
Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 14× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 24:8
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- Person
- 1st Person
- Gender
- Common
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to smite through, shatter, wound severely
- (Qal)
- to shatter
- shattering (participle)
- וָאֲכַלֵּ֥ם ʼâkal H398 “and · to eat · them” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם mâchats H4272 “and · to shatter · them” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וְלֹ֣א lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
- יְקוּמ֑וּן qûwm H6965 “to rise” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural + Suffix, n
- וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ nâphal H5307 “and · to fall” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- תַּ֥חַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
- רַגְלָֽי regel H7272 “feet · my” Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם to shatter H4272 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם to shatter H4272 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 verbs
- 1 noun
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וָאֲכַלֵּ֥ם Piel · Sequential Imperfect
- וָאֶמְחָצֵ֖ם Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- יְקוּמ֑וּן Qal · Imperfect
- וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 12 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
6Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Malachi 4:3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Psalms 18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
- Psalms 110:1 Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
- Psalms 110:5–6 The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
- Psalms 118:10–12 All the nations surrounded me, But in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.
- Malachi 4:1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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 θλάω αὐτός καί οὐ ἀναἵστημι καί πίπτω ὑπό ὁ πούς ἐγώ
And I will crush them, and they shall not rise; and they shall fall under my feet.
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)
וְשֵׁיצֵיתִינוּן וּגְמַרְתִּינוּן וְלָא יְכִילוּ לְמֵיקָם וּנְפָלוּ קְטִילִין תְּחוֹת פַּרְסַת רִגְלָי:
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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.
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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâchats (“to shatter”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to shatter” (mâchats) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Numbers 24:8, which shares the word «to shatter», read alongside 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?
- «וָאֲכַלֵּ֥ם» is a Piel Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 22:39 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 →
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.