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2 Kings 13:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Open
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
the window
challown (Hebrew #2474)
a window (as perforated)
KJV usage: window.
Pronounce: khal-lone'
eastward
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
. And he opened
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
it. Then Elisha
'Eliysha` (Hebrew #477)
Elisha, the famous prophet
KJV usage: Elisha.
Pronounce: el-ee-shaw'
Origin: contracted for 474.
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Shoot
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
. And he shot
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
. And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
x, The arrow
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
of the Lord’s
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
deliverance
tshuw`ah (Hebrew #8668)
from 7768 in the sense of 3467; rescue (literal or figurative, pers., national or spir.)
KJV usage: deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory.
Pronounce: tesh-oo-aw'
Origin: or tshuah {tesh-oo-aw'}
, and the arrow
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
of deliverance
tshuw`ah (Hebrew #8668)
from 7768 in the sense of 3467; rescue (literal or figurative, pers., national or spir.)
KJV usage: deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory.
Pronounce: tesh-oo-aw'
Origin: or tshuah {tesh-oo-aw'}
from Syria
'Aram (Hebrew #758)
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
Pronounce: arawm'
Origin: from the same as 759
: for thou shalt smite
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the Syrians
'Aram (Hebrew #758)
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
Pronounce: arawm'
Origin: from the same as 759
inb Aphek
'Apheq (Hebrew #663)
from 662 (in the sense of strength); fortress; Aphek (or Aphik), the name of three places in Palestine
KJV usage: Aphek, Aphik.
Pronounce: af-ake'
Origin: or rAphiyq {af-eek'}
, till thou have consumed
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
them.
x
Judg. 7:20• 20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hand, and the trumpets in their right hand for blowing, and cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon! (Judg. 7:20)
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1 Kings 20:26• 26And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. (1 Kings 20:26)

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Aphek; Aphik,
Deliverance,
Elisha,
Syria; Syrian,
Window

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Kings 5:10‑14• 10And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
 11And Naaman was wroth, and went away and said, Behold, I thought, He will certainly come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.
 12Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.
 13And his servants drew near, and spoke to him and said, My father, if the prophet had bidden thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he says to thee, Wash and be clean?
 14Then he went down, and plunged himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. (2 Kings 5:10‑14)
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John 2:5‑8• 5His mother saith to the servants, Whatever he shall say to you, do.
 6Now there were six waterpots of stone set there according to the purification of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.
 7Jesus saith to them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
 8And he saith to them, Draw now and carry to the master of the feast. And they carried. (John 2:5‑8)
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John 11:39‑41• 39Jesus saith, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the deceased, saith to him, Lord, he already stinketh, for he is four days [dead].
 40Jesus saith to her, Said I not to thee that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
 41They took away therefore the stone; and Jesus lifted his eyes upward, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me. (John 11:39‑41)
The arrow.This was a symbolical action, indicative of the deliverance of Israel from Syria.
It was an ancient custom to shoot an arrow or cast a spear into a country before the commencement of hostilities.
Ex. 4:2,17• 2And Jehovah said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A staff.
 17And thou shalt take this staff in thy hand, with which thou shalt do the signs. (Ex. 4:2,17)
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Judg. 7:9‑20• 9And it came to pass in that night, that Jehovah said unto Gideon, Get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
 10But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
 11and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
 12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
 13And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
 14And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
 15And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
 16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
 17And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise; behold, when I come to the extremity of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
 18And when I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, ye also shall blow the trumpets around the whole camp, and shall say, For Jehovah and for Gideon!
 19And Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch; and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
 20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hand, and the trumpets in their right hand for blowing, and cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon! (Judg. 7:9‑20)
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2 Sam. 5:24• 24And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall Jehovah go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. (2 Sam. 5:24)
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1 Cor. 1:18• 18For the word of the cross is to those that perish foolishness, but to us that are to be saved it is God's power. (1 Cor. 1:18)
Aphek.
1 Sam. 4:1• 1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. (1 Sam. 4:1)
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1 Kings 20:26• 26And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. (1 Kings 20:26)
• Let us notice that the word spoken to Elijah: “Him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay,” is only fulfilled, and that prophetically, in these last moments of the prophet’s life. So little is he a prophet of judgment that he does not exercise judgment except in figure, and even this judgment is nothing other than the salvation of Israel and its deliverance from the yoke of Syria. (“Joash, King of Israel, and Elisha: 2 Kings 13:10-25” by H.L. Rossier)
• The king shoots his arrow eastward; nothing is done without the word of God. Joash is unable to understand anything of this; the prophet must explain the matter to him. (“Joash, King of Israel, and Elisha: 2 Kings 13:10-25” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. And Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, An arrow of Jehovah’s deliverance, even an arrow of deliverance from the Syrians; and thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou hast consumed them.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of Jehovah’s deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou have consumed them.