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2 Samuel 15:2
“And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7925 · Hebrew
- Definition
- literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning
- Derivation
- a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926 (שְׁכֶם);
- KJV renderings
- (arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הִשְׁכִּים֙ — verb Hiphil, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 65 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:2Genesis 19:27Genesis 20:8Genesis 21:14Genesis 22:3
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 שָׁכַם 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.