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2 R. 2:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Elijah
'Eliyah (Hebrew #452)
from 410 and 3050; God of Jehovah; Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites
KJV usage: Elijah, Eliah.
Pronounce: ay-lee-yaw'
Origin: or prolonged tEliyahuw {ay-lee-yaw'-hoo}
took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
his mantle
'addereth (Hebrew #155)
something ample (as a large vine, a wide dress); also the same as 145
KJV usage: garment, glory, goodly, mantle, robe.
Pronounce: ad-deh'-reth
Origin: feminine of 117
v, and wrapped it together
galam (Hebrew #1563)
to fold
KJV usage: wrap together.
Pronounce: gaw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
, and smote
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 waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, andw they were divided
chatsah (Hebrew #2673)
to cut or split in two; to halve
KJV usage: divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle
Pronounce: khaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2086))
hither and thither, so that they two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
went over
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
on dry
charabah (Hebrew #2724)
a desert
KJV usage: dry (ground, land).
Pronounce: khaw-raw-baw'
Origin: feminine of 2720
ground.

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his mantle.[Ten meloten autou,] his sheep skin, says the Septuagint; the skins of sheep being formerly worn by prophets as the simple insignia of their office: see Note on ch. 1:8.
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2 R. 2:14• 14Y tomando el manto de Elías que se le había caído, hirió las aguas, y dijo: ¿ Dónde está Jehová, el Dios de Elías? Y así que hubo del mismo modo herido las aguas, apartáronse á uno y á otro lado, y pasó Eliseo. (2 R. 2:14)
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Éx. 14:21‑22• 21Y extendió Moisés su mano sobre la mar, é hizo Jehová que la mar se retirase por recio viento oriental toda aquella noche; y tornó la mar en seco, y las aguas quedaron divididas.
22Entonces los hijos de Israel entraron por medio de la mar en seco, teniendo las aguas como muro á su diestra y á su siniestra:
(Éx. 14:21‑22)
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Jos. 3:14‑17• 14Y aconteció, que partiendo el pueblo de sus tiendas para pasar el Jordán, y los sacerdotes delante del pueblo llevando el arca del pacto,
15Cuando los que llevaban el arca entraron en el Jordán, así como los pies de los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca fueron mojados á la orilla del agua, (porque el Jordán suele reverter sobre todos sus bordes todo el tiempo de la siega,)
16Las aguas que venían de arriba, se pararon como en un montón bien lejos de la ciudad de Adam, que está al lado de Sarethán; y las que descendían á la mar de los llanos, al mar Salado, se acabaron y fueron partidas; y el pueblo pasó en derecho de Jericó.
17Mas los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca del pacto de Jehová, estuvieron en seco, firmes en medio del Jordán, hasta que todo el pueblo hubo acabado de pasar el Jordán; y todo Israel pasó en seco.
(Jos. 3:14‑17)
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Sal. 114:5‑7• 5¿Qué tuviste, oh mar, que huiste? ¿Y tú, oh Jordán, que te volviste atrás?
6Oh montes, ¿por qué saltasteis como carneros, Y vosotros, collados, como corderitos?
7A la presencia del Señor tiembla la tierra, A la presencia del Dios de Jacob;
(Sal. 114:5‑7)
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Is. 11:15• 15Y secará Jehová la lengua de la mar de Egipto; y levantará su mano con fortaleza de su espíritu sobre el río, y herirálo en sus siete brazos, y hará que pasen por él con zapatos. (Is. 11:15)
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He. 11:29• 29Por fe pasaron el mar Bermejo como por tierra seca: lo cual probando los Egipcios, fueron sumergidos. (He. 11:29)
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Ap. 16:12• 12Y el sexto ángel derramó su copa sobre el gran río Eufrates; y el agua de él se secó, para que fuese preparado el camino de los reyes del Oriente. (Ap. 16:12)
 Elijah leaves Canaan, the land of promise and of Israel’s inheritance, with nothing more than his prophet’s mantle. Though he had visited Bethel, he did not stop there; he took away nothing of that which might have belonged to him as a man of God. So it was with Christ, too, for it was said of Him: “(He) shall have nothing” (Dan. 9:26). (The Ascension of Elijah: 2 Kings 2:1-12 by H.L. Rossier)
 Elijah takes Elisha with him, leads him through the river of death in the power of the Spirit which death cannot resist, in the triumphant power of a life that it cannot swallow up. A mantle belonging to Elijah is able to do these things. Oh, what a blessed association for Elisha! (Elisha, the Servant: 2 Kings 2-3 by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither; and they two went over on dry ground.