2 Samuel 13:19
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying."
Word-by-Word Analysis
תָּמָר
Tâmâr
Tamar, the name of three women and a place
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
קָרַע
qâraʻ
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Key Terms in This Verse
קָרַע qâraʻ
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
Study H7167 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →Cross References
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the eart...
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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