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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 host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. (2 Kings 6:24)
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1 Kings 20:1,34• 1And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
 34And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I 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• 31But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel. (1 Kings 22:31)
took.
1 Kings 20:23• 23And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. (1 Kings 20:23)
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Job 5:12‑13• 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
 13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. (Job 5:12‑13)
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Prov. 20:18• 18Every purpose is 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 the Lord. (Prov. 21:30)
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Isa. 7:5‑7• 5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
 6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
 7Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. (Isa. 7:5‑7)
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Isa. 8:10• 10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the 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.