A certain woman, the wife of one of the disciples of the prophets, cried out to Elisha: “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know how your servant revered GOD. And now a creditor is coming to seize my two children as slaves.”
Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what have you in the house?” She replied, “Your maidservant has nothing at all in the house, except a jug of oil.”
One day Elisha visited Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to have a meal; and whenever he passed by, he would stop there for a meal.
Let us make a small enclosed upper chamberaenclosed upper chamber Or “upper wall-chamber”; lit. “an upper chamber of wall(s).” and place a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand there for him, so that he can stop there whenever he comes to us.”
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נעשהנא
476
עליתקיר
820
קטנה
164
ונשים
406
לו
36
שם
340
מטה
54
ושלחן
394
וכסא
87
ומנורה
307
והיה
26
בבאו
11
אלינו
97
יסור
276
שמה
345
II Kings 4:11
Gematria: 1566
ויהיהיוםויבאשמהויסראלהעליהוישכבשמה
One day he came there; he retired to the upper chamber and lay down there.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
היום
61
ויבא
19
שמה
345
ויסר
276
אלהעליה
151
וישכבשמה
683
II Kings 4:12
Gematria: 3250
ויאמראלגיחזינערוקראלשונמיתהזאתויקראלהותעמדלפניו
He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call that Shunammite.” He called her, and she stood before him.
He said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak in your behalf to the king or to the army commander?’” She replied, “I live among my own people.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
לו
36
אמרנא
292
אליה
46
הנה
60
חרדתאלינו
709
אתכלהחרדה
673
הזאת
413
מה
45
לעשות
806
לך
50
היש
315
לדברלך
286
אלהמלך
126
או
7
אלשר
531
הצבא
98
ותאמר
647
בתוך
428
עמי
120
אנכי
81
ישבת
712
II Kings 4:14
Gematria: 2104
ויאמרומהלעשותלהויאמרגיחזיאבלבןאיןלהואישהזקן
“What then can be done for her?” he asked. “The fact is,” said Gehazi, “she has no son, and her husband is old.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
ומה
51
לעשות
806
לה
35
ויאמר
257
גיחזי
38
אבל
33
בן
52
איןלה
96
ואישה
322
זקן
157
II Kings 4:15
Gematria: 1955
ויאמרקראלהויקראלהותעמדבפתח
“Call her,” he said. He called her, and she stood in the doorway.
And Elisha said, “At this season next year, you will be embracing a son.” She replied, “Please, my lord, agent of God, do not delude your maidservant.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
למועד
150
הזה
17
כעת
490
חיה
23
אתי
411
את
401
חבקת
510
בן
52
ותאמר
647
אלאדני
96
איש
311
האלהים
91
אלתכזב
460
בשפחתך
810
II Kings 4:17
Gematria: 3258
ותהרהאשהותלדבןלמועדהזהכעתחיהאשרדבראליהאלישע
The woman conceived and bore a son at the same season the following year, as Elisha had assured her.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותהר
611
האשה
311
ותלד
440
בן
52
למועד
150
הזה
17
כעת
490
חיה
23
אשרדבר
707
אליה
46
אלישע
411
II Kings 4:18
Gematria: 827
ויגדלהילדויהיהיוםויצאאלאביואלהקצרים
The child grew up. One day, he went out to his father among the reapers.
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ויגדל
53
הילד
49
ויהי
31
היום
61
ויצא
107
אלאביו
50
אלהקצרים
476
II Kings 4:19
Gematria: 2332
ויאמראלאביוראשיראשיויאמראלהנערשאהואלאמו
[Suddenly] he cried to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” He said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
אלאביו
50
ראשיראשי
1022
ויאמר
257
אלהנער
356
שאהו
312
אלאמו
78
II Kings 4:20
Gematria: 1981
וישאהוויביאהואלאמווישבעלברכיהעדהצהריםוימת
He picked him up and brought him to his mother. And the child sat on her lap until noon; and he died.
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וישאהו
328
ויביאהו
40
אלאמו
78
וישב
318
עלברכיה
337
עדהצהרים
424
וימת
456
II Kings 4:21
Gematria: 3444
ותעלותשכבהועלמטתאישהאלהיםותסגרבעדוותצא
She took him up and laid him on the bed of the agent of God, and left him and closed the door.
She had the jenny saddled, and said to her servant, “Urge it on;cUrge it on The servant runs behind the donkey and urges it on with a stick. see that I don’t slow down unless I tell you.”
She went on until she came to the agent of God on Mount Carmel. When the agent of God saw her from afar, he said to his servant Gehazi, “There is that Shunammite.
But when she came up to the agent of God on the mountain, she clasped his feet. Gehazi stepped forward to push her away; but the agent of God said, “Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and GOD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותבא
409
אלאיש
342
האלהים
91
אלההר
241
ותחזק
521
ברגליו
251
ויגש
319
גיחזי
38
להדפה
124
ויאמר
257
איש
311
האלהים
91
הרפהלה
325
כינפשה
465
מרהלה
280
ויהוה
32
העלים
155
ממני
140
ולא
37
הגיד
22
לי
40
II Kings 4:28
Gematria: 3815
ותאמרהשאלתיבןמאתאדניהלאאמרתילאתשלהאתי
Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say: ‘Don’t mislead me’?”
He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your skirts,dTie up your skirts Lit. “Gird your loins”; cf. 1 Kings 18.46. take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. And place my staff on the face of the boy.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
לגיחזי
68
חגר
211
מתניך
520
וקח
114
משענתי
870
בידך
36
ולך
56
כיתמצא
561
איש
311
לא
31
תברכנו
678
וכייברכך
288
איש
311
לא
31
תעננו
576
ושמת
746
משענתי
870
עלפני
240
הנער
325
II Kings 4:30
Gematria: 2118
ותאמראםהנערחייהוהוחינפשךאםאעזבךויקםוילךאחריה
But the boy’s mother said, “As GOD lives and as you live, I will not leave you!” So he arose and followed her.
Gehazi had gone on before them and had placed the staff on the boy’s face; but there was no sound or response. He turned back to meet him and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגחזי
34
עבר
272
לפניהם
215
וישם
356
אתהמשענת
1266
עלפני
240
הנער
325
ואין
67
קול
136
ואין
67
קשב
402
וישב
318
לקראתו
737
ויגדלו
59
לאמר
271
לא
31
הקיץ
205
הנער
325
II Kings 4:32
Gematria: 2600
ויבאאלישעהביתהוהנההנערמתמשכבעלמטתו
Elisha came into the house, and there was the boy, laid out dead on his couch.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
אלישע
411
הביתה
422
והנה
66
הנער
325
מת
440
משכב
362
עלמטתו
555
II Kings 4:33
Gematria: 1831
ויבאויסגרהדלתבעדשניהםויתפללאליהוה
He went in, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to GOD.
Then he mounted [the bed] and placed himself over the child. He put his mouth on its mouth, his eyes on its eyes, and his hands on its hands, as he bent over it. And the body of the child became warm.
He stepped down, walked once up and down the room, then mounted and bent over him. Thereupon, the boy sneezed seven times, and the boy opened his eyes.
Elisha returned to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land, and the disciples of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, “Set the large pot [on the fire] and cook a stew for the disciples of the prophets.”
So one of them went out into the fields to gather sprouts. He came across a wild vine and picked from it wild gourds, as many as his garment would hold. Then he came back and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know [what they were];
and they served it for those present to eat. While they were still eating of the stew, they began to cry out: “O agent of God, there is death in the pot!”edeath in the pot The wild gourds cause severe cramps. And they could not eat it.
“Fetch some flour,” [Elisha] said. He threw it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people and let them eat.” And there was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
A man came from Baal-shalishah and he brought the agent of God some bread of the first reaping—twenty loaves of barley bread, and some fresh grain in his sack.fin his sack Or “on the stalk”; perhaps connected with Ugaritic bṣql. And [Elisha] said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”
His attendant replied, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” But he said, “Give it to the people and let them eat. For thus said GOD: They shall eat and have some left over.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
משרתו
946
מה
45
אתן
451
זה
12
לפני
170
מאה
46
איש
311
ויאמר
257
תן
450
לעם
140
ויאכלו
73
כי
30
כה
25
אמר
241
יהוה
26
אכל
51
והותר
617
II Kings 4:44
Gematria: 1714
ויתןלפניהםויאכלוויותרוכדבריהוהפ
So he set it before them; and when they had eaten, they had some left over, as GOD had said.