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2 Kings 6

2 Kings 6:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of 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
warred
lacham (Hebrew #3898)
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
KJV usage: devour, eat, X ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Pronounce: law-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
against Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, and took counsel
ya`ats (Hebrew #3289)
to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve
KJV usage: advertise, take advise, advise (well), consult, (give, take) counsel(-lor), determine, devise, guide, purpose.
Pronounce: yaw-ats'
Origin: a primitive root
with his servants
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
, saying
'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
, In such
ploniy (Hebrew #6423)
such a one, i.e. a specified peccrson
KJV usage: such.
Pronounce: pel-o-nee'
Origin: from 6395
and such
'almoniy (Hebrew #492)
some one (i.e. so and so, without giving the name of the person or place)
KJV usage: one, and such.
Pronounce: al-mo-nee'
Origin: from 489 in the sense of concealment
a place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
shall be my λcamp
tachanah (Hebrew #8466)
(only plural collectively) an encampment
KJV usage: camp.
Pronounce: takh-an-aw'
Origin: from 2583
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or, encamping.

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Camp,
Israel,
King,
Servant,
Syria; Syrian

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the king.
2 Kings 6:24• 24And it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. (2 Kings 6:24)
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1 Kings 20:1,34• 1And Ben-Hadad king of Syria assembled all his host; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
 34And Ben-Hadad said to him, The cities that my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thyself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. And I said Ahab will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. (1 Kings 20:1,34)
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1 Kings 22:31• 31And the king of Syria commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots saying, Fight neither with small nor great, but with the king of Israel only. (1 Kings 22:31)
took.
1 Kings 20:23• 23And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are gods of the mountains; therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them on the plateau, shall we not be stronger than they? (1 Kings 20:23)
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Job 5:12‑13• 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
 13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: (Job 5:12‑13)
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Prov. 20:18• 18Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war. (Prov. 20:18)
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Prov. 21:30• 30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah. (Prov. 21:30)
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Isa. 7:5‑7• 5Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim also and the son of Remaliah, saying,
 6Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein--the son of Tabeal;
 7thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to pass; (Isa. 7:5‑7)
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Isa. 8:10• 10Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand: for *God is with us. (Isa. 8:10)
camp.
or, encamping.
• The king of Syria sets up his camp here and there, seeking to draw Jehoram into a trap by the latter’s ignorance of his adversary’s movements; but he leaves God out of his calculations. (“Dothan: 2 Kings 6:8-23” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the king of Syria warred against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.