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Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.
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way·hî ’a·ḥar had·də·ḇā·rîm hā·’êl·leh ben- hā·’iš·šāh ba·‘ă·laṯ hab·bā·yiṯ way·hî ḥā·lāh ḥā·lə·yōw ḥā·zāq mə·’ōḏ ‘aḏ ’ă·šer lō- nə·šā·māh nō·wṯ·rāh- bōw
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√ hâyâh — to exist, iConjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
hâyâh (Qal consecutive imperfect) The narrative hinge way·hî, “and it came to pass,” which in Hebrew narration opens a new scene rather than adding information.
√ ʼachar — properly, the hind partAdverb
√ dâbâr — a wordArticleNounmasculine plural
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thoseArticlePronouncommon plural
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ ʼishshâh — a womanArticleNounfeminine singular
√ baʻălâh — a mistressNounfeminine singular construct
baʻălâh: mistress, female owner A genuinely rare noun: it stands in only three verses of Scripture. In the other two it names a woman who is baʻălath of something forbidden (a medium at Endor, a city of sorceries in Nahum). Here the same construct dignifies a starving Gentile widow as mistress of the house in which the prophet of the LORD is a lodger, and the house she is mistress of is the house where the dead will be raised.
√ bayith — a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etcArticleNounmasculine singular
√ hâyâh — to exist, iConjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
√ châlâh — properly, to be rubbed or wornVerbQalPerfectthird person masculine singular
châlâh: to be worn, to be sick The root is properly to be rubbed or worn down. The verb is Qal perfect, the plain statement of fact: he fell sick. Gill notes it was “a sickness unto death, it issued in it.” The same root and its noun recur at 2 Kings 1:2, where a king in an upper chamber falls sick and sends to a foreign god instead of to the LORD.
√ chŏlîy — malady, anxiety, calamityNounmasculine singular constructthird person masculine singular
√ châzâq — strong (usuAdjectivemasculine singular
châzâq: strong, firm The predicate is an adjective of strength, not of degradation. Scripture elsewhere uses this word for a strong hand, a strong wind, a strong people; here the strength belongs to the disease, and the narrative measures it by what it finally leaves behind: nothing.
√ mᵉʼôd — properly, vehemence, iAdverb
√ ʻad — as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)Preposition
ʻad: until, as far as The preposition that carries the sentence to its limit.
√ ʼăsher — who, which, what, thatPronounrelative
√ lôʼ — not (the simple or absAdverbNegative particle
√ nᵉshâmâh — a puff, iNounfeminine singular
nᵉshâmâh: breath, a puff The rare and loaded word (24 verses) that Genesis 2:7 uses when God breathes into the nostrils of the man and he becomes a living soul. The whole exegetical dispute in this unit turns on it: Cambridge reports that Josephus read the phrase as a swoon, the Pulpit records Bahr's four arguments that the boy was not dead, K&D answers that the words signify “an actual decease.” The text itself says only that the Genesis breath was not left in him.
√ yâthar — to jut over or exceedVerbNifalPerfectthird person feminine singular
yâthar (Nifal): to be left over, to remain as a residue A passive of surplus. Nothing was left over of the breath: the verb does not describe a departure so much as an accounting in which the balance is zero. The feminine form agrees with nᵉshâmâh, the breath itself, and not with the boy.
בּ֖וֹbōwin him
Prepositionthird person masculine singular