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2 Samuel 12:19

But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

KJV

Cum ergo David vidisset servos suos mussitantes, intellexit quod mortuus esset infantulus : dixitque ad servos suos : Num mortuus est puer ? Qui responderunt ei : Mortuus est.

Vulgate

καὶ συνῆκεν Δαυεὶδ ὅτι οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ ψιθυρίζουσιν, καὶ ἐνόησεν Δαυεὶδ ὅτι τέθνηκεν τὸ παιδάριον· καὶ εἶπεν Δαυεὶδ πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ Εἰ τέθνηκεν τὸ παιδάριον; καὶ εἶπαν Τέθνηκεν.

LXX

But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

ASV

וַ/יַּ֣רְא דָּוִ֗ד כִּ֤י עֲבָדָי/ו֙ מִֽתְלַחֲשִׁ֔ים וַ/יָּ֥בֶן דָּוִ֖ד כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת הַ/יָּ֑לֶד וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֧ד אֶל עֲבָדָ֛י/ו הֲ/מֵ֥ת הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד וַ/יֹּ֥אמְרוּ מֵֽת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
יְלָדִים֙
yldym
noun · 89×
יָבִ֥ין
ybyn
verb · 168×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִֽתְלַחֲשִׁ֔ים
mtlchshym
verb · 3×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 4:13 — But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.