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2 Kings 24:14
“And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1540 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, [idiom] plainly, publish, remove, reveal, [idiom] shamelessly, shew, [idiom] surely, tell, uncover.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הִגְלָ֣ה — verb Hiphil, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 186 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 9:21Genesis 35:7Exodus 20:26Leviticus 18:6Leviticus 18:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גָּלָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.