The Meaning of 2 Samuel 21:19 Explained

2 Samuel 21:19

KJV: And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

YLT: And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smiteth a brother of Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear is like a beam of weavers.

Darby: And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, smote Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.

ASV: And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And there was again a battle  in Gob  with the Philistines,  where Elhanan  the son  of Jaareoregim,  a Bethlehemite,  slew  [the brother of] Goliath  the Gittite,  the staff  of whose spear  [was] like a weaver's  beam. 

What does 2 Samuel 21:19 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Samuel 21:12-22 - More Giants Slain
It was in unsettled weather that Rizpah began her watch; but no hardship daunted her, no cost was too great. She shielded the dear remains from bird and beast till the falling rain gave assurance that the long famine was ended, 2 Samuel 21:10, r.v. Her devotion seems to have aroused David to treat with similar honor the remains of Saul and Jonathan, and all were buried together in the sepulcher of Kish.
Love ignites love, as fire kindles fire, without impoverishment. How often a voice raised in prayerful and passionate affection to Jesus has made volcanic fires leap out where all had seemed extinct! Do not stint your alabaster-boxes, for though they drive a Judas to desperation, they will stimulate a David or a Peter to a forgotten duty.
Monstrous sin stalked the world in the person of these giants, 2 Samuel 21:16-22. They beset the old age of David, as they did his youth, though we may not be assailed by the identical temptations as at first, there never will be a time when the progeny of sin will not molest us-if not passion, then jealousy, or avarice, or pride. [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Samuel 21

1  The three year Gibeonite famine ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons
10  Rizpah's kindness unto the dead
12  David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's tomb
15  Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four men of David slay four giants

What do the individual words in 2 Samuel 21:19 mean?

And there was Again war at Gob with the Philistines and killed where Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim in the Bethlehemite - Goliath the Gittite and the shaft of whose spear [was] like a beam of weaver -
וַתְּהִי־ ע֧וֹד הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה בְּג֖וֹב עִם־ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּ֡ךְ אֶלְחָנָן֩ בֶּן־ יַעְרֵ֨י אֹרְגִ֜ים בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִ֗י אֵ֚ת גָּלְיָ֣ת הַגִּתִּ֔י וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֔וֹ כִּמְנ֖וֹר אֹרְגִֽים ס

וַתְּהִי־  And  there  was 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
ע֧וֹד  Again 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה  war 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: מִלְחָמָה  
Sense: battle, war.
בְּג֖וֹב  at  Gob 
Parse: Preposition-b, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: גֹּוב  
Sense: a place which was the scene of two encounters between David’s warriors and the Philistines (also ‘Gezer’).
פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים  the  Philistines 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine plural
Root: פְּלִשְׁתִּי  
Sense: an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan.
וַיַּ֡ךְ  and  killed 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נָכָה  
Sense: to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill.
אֶלְחָנָן֩  where  Elhanan 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֶלְחָנָן  
Sense: Jair’s son who fought the Gittites.
בֶּן־  son 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
אֹרְגִ֜ים  Jaare-oregim 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֹרְגִים 
Sense: a man of Bethlehem, father of Elhanan the giant slayer and one of David’s mighty warriors; also called ‘Jair’.
הַלַּחְמִ֗י  the  Bethlehemite 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: בֵּית־הַלַּחְמִי 
Sense: an inhabitant of Bethlehem.
אֵ֚ת  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
גָּלְיָ֣ת  Goliath 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: גָּלְיָת  
Sense: the Philistine giant of Gath slain by David’s sling.
הַגִּתִּ֔י  the  Gittite 
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: גִּתִּי  
Sense: an inhabitant of Gath.
וְעֵ֣ץ  and  the  shaft 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
חֲנִית֔וֹ  of  whose  spear 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: חֲנִית  
Sense: spear.
כִּמְנ֖וֹר  [was]  like  a  beam 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: מָנׄור  
Sense: beam.
אֹרְגִֽים  of  weaver 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: אָרַג  
Sense: to weave.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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