2 Samuel 14:13
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

Young's Literal Translation
And the woman saith, ‘And why hast thou thought thus concerning the people of God? yea, the king is speaking this thing as a guilty one, in that the king hath not brought back his outcast;

King James Bible
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

Hebrew
The woman
הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

asked,
וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Why
וְלָ֧מָּה (wə·lām·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

have you devised
חָשַׁ֛בְתָּה (ḥā·šaḇ·tāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2803: To think, account

a thing like this
כָּזֹ֖את (kā·zōṯ)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

against
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the people
עַ֣ם (‘am)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

of God?
אֱלֹהִ֑ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

When the king
הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

says
וּמִדַּבֵּ֨ר (ū·mid·dab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

this,
הַזֶּה֙ (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

does he not convict himself,
כְּאָשֵׁ֔ם (kə·’ā·šêm)
Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 818: Guilty, presenting a, sin-offering

since [he]
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

has not
לְבִלְתִּ֛י (lə·ḇil·tî)
Preposition-l
Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until

brought back
הָשִׁ֥יב (hā·šîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

his own banished [son]?
נִדְּחֽוֹ׃ (nid·də·ḥōw)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5080: To impel, thrust, banish

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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