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1 Kings 20:32

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And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.	So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, [Is] he yet alive? he [is] my brother.	Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

So they girded^H2296 sackcloth^H8242 on their loins^H4975, and put ropes^H2256 on their heads^H7218, and came^H935 to the king^H4428 of Israel^H3478, and said^H559, Thy servant^H5650 Benhadad^H1130 saith^H559, I pray thee, let me live^{H2421 H5315}. And he said^H559, Is he yet alive^H2416? he is my brother^H251.

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Original Hebrew

וַיַּחְגְּרוּ שַׂקִּים בְּמָתְנֵיהֶם וַחֲבָלִים בְּרָאשֵׁיהֶם וַיָּבֹאוּ אֶל־מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיֹּאמְרוּ עַבְדְּךָ בֶן־הֲדַד אָמַר תְּחִי־נָא נַפְשִׁי וַיֹּאמֶר הַעֹודֶנּוּ חַי אָחִי הוּא׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יַּחְגְּרוּ֩	va/i.yach.ge.Ru	H2296	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they girded
שַׂקִּ֨ים	sa.Kim	H8242	HNcmpa	sackcloth(s)
בְּ/מָתְנֵי/הֶ֜ם	be./ma.te.nei./Hem	H4975	HR/Ncmdc/Sp3mp	on/ loins/ their
וַ/חֲבָלִ֣ים	va./cha.va.Lim	H2256	HC/Ncbpa	and/ ropes
בְּ/רָאשֵׁי/הֶ֗ם	be./ra.shei./Hem	H7218	HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp	on/ heads/ their
וַ/יָּבֹ֨אוּ֙	va/i.ya.Vo.'u	H935	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they went
אֶל	'el-	H413	HR	to
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	H4428	HNcmsc	(the) king of
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	Israel
וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ	va/i.Yo.me.Ru	H559	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they said
עַבְדְּ/ךָ֧	'av.de./Kha	H5650	HNcmsc/Sp2ms	servant/ your
בֶן	ven-	H1130	HNp	Ben
הֲדַ֛ד	ha.Dad	H1130	HNp	Hadad
אָמַ֖ר	'a.Mar	H559	HVqp3ms	he says
תְּחִֽי	te.chi-	H2421	HVqj3fs	let it live
נָ֣א	na'	H4994	HTe	please
נַפְשִׁ֑/י	naf.Sh/i	H5315	HNcbsc/Sp1cs	life/ my
וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר	va/i.Yo.mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
הַ/עוֹדֶ֥/נּוּ	ha./'o.De./nu	H5750	HTi/D/Sp3ms	¿/ (is) still/ he
חַ֖י	chai	H2416	HAamsa	alive
אָחִ֥/י	'a.Ch/i	H251	HNcmsc/Sp1cs	(is) brother/ my
הֽוּא	Hu'	H1931	HPp3ms	he

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H251 — אָח (ʼâch, awkh): a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father)); another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H935 — בּוֹא (bôwʼ, bo): a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
• H1130 — בֶּן־הֲדַד (Ben-Hădad, ben-had-ad'): from בֵּן and הֲדַד; son of Hadad; Ben-Hadad, the name of several Syrian kings; Benhadad.
• H2256 — חֶבֶל (chebel, kheh'-bel): or חֵבֶל; from חָבַל; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin; band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
• H2296 — חָגַר (châgar, khaw-gar'): a primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.); be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, [idiom] on every side.
• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H2421 — חָיָה (châyâh, khaw-yaw'): a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive; keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.
• H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
• H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
• H4975 — מֹתֶן (môthen, mo'-then): from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins; [phrase] greyhound, loins, side.
• H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
• H5650 — עֶבֶד (ʻebed, eh'-bed): from עָבַד; a servant; [idiom] bondage, bondman, (bond-) servant, (man-) servant.
• H7218 — רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, roshe): from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.); band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, [idiom] every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), [idiom] lead, [idiom] poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
• H8242 — שַׂק (saq, sak): from שָׁקַק; properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.); sack(-cloth, -clothes).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H413 — אֵל (ʼêl, ale): (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e.; near, with or among; often in general, to; about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
• H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
• H4994 — נָא (nâʼ, naw): a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered; 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction; I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
• H5750 — עוֹד (ʻôwd, ode): or עֹד; from עוּד; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more; again, [idiom] all life long, at all, besides, but, else, further(-more), henceforth, (any) longer, (any) more(-over), [idiom] once, since, (be) still, when, (good, the) while (having being), (as, because, whether, while) yet (within).

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