2 Samuel 3:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

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אַבְנֵ֖ר

ʼAbnêr

H74

“Abner”

Noun, Proper

Appears 63× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 14:50

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H5216

TWOT: None

Abner = "my father is a lamp" - Saul's cousin and army captain, treacherously slain by Joab

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 →

15: words
12: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
8 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִשָּׂ֧א Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיֵּבְךְּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אַבְנֵ֖ר Abner H74 ×2
וַיֵּבְךְּ֙ to weep H1058 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 26 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

Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 3:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Proverbs 24:17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;
Job 31:28 This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.
1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
2 Samuel 1:12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 18:33 The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!
Luke 19:41–42 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Samuel 3:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ אֶת אַבְנֵ֖ר בְּחֶבְר֑וֹן וַיִשָּׂ֧א הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֶת קוֹל֗וֹ וַיֵּבְךְּ֙ אֶל קֶ֣בֶר אַבְנֵ֔ר וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ כָּל הָעָֽם

They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

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Greek LXX 2 Samuel 3:32 Septuagint · lemma form

καί θάπτω ὁ αβεννηρ εἰς χεβρων καί αἴρω ὁ βασιλεύς ὁ φωνή αὐτός καί κλαίω ἐπί ὁ τάφος αὐτός καί κλαίω πᾶς ὁ λαός ἐπί αβεννηρ

And they bury Abenner in Chebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at his tomb, and all the people wept for Abenner.

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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּקְבַרוּ יַת אַבְנֵר בְּחֶבְרוֹן וַאֲרֵים מַלְכָּא יַת קָלֵיהּ וּבְכָא עַל קִבְרָא דְאַבְנֵר וּבְכוֹ כָּל עַמָא:

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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 3:32 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 3:32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

Ver. 32. And they buried Abner in Hebron.] The burial place of the patriarchs. The wicked may be with the saints in area, sed non in horreo; in the floor, but not in the garner.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

3:32 Burying Abner in Hebron, David’s capital city at the time, rather than at some northern site reinforced Abner’s shift of support from Saul to David. Presumably it encouraged others from the northern tribes to follow Abner’s example.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(32) In Hebron.—The family home, and therefore the natural burial-place, of Abner was at Gibeon (1Ch_8:29; 1Ch_8:33; 1Ch_9:33); but this may have been now under Ish-bosheth’s control, and, at all events, a burial in the royal city of Hebron was more honourable and a more marked testimony to the grief of David.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And they buried Abner in Hebron,.... According to the Jewish account of places of burial (s), he was buried in the midst of the city, though burying places were generally without; and so Fuller (t) places this in his map; whether the cave of Machpelah, which was near Hebron, was now used for a burying place, is not certain:

and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; made a great outcry, a loud lamentation, so as to be heard by all the people; and which no doubt was real and hearty, and not done merely with political views:

and all the people wept; through concern for the death of Abner, especially on account of the manner in which it was, and in imitation of the king, and being affected with his tears and cries.

(s) Cippi Heb. p. 8. (t) Pisgah-Sight, &c. in the Map of Judah.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

32. The people wept — The grief of David and the people produced a profound impression, and convinced the entire nation that the king had no hand in the death of Abner.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAbnêr (“Abner”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Abner” (ʼAbnêr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Proverbs 24:17, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Abner” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
«וַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 15 Hebrew ↔ 26 Greek words.
“Abner” occurs 2× in this single verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 15 words in this verse.