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2 Kings 3

2 R. 3:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But now bring
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
me a minstrel
nagan (Hebrew #5059)
properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
KJV usage: player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Pronounce: naw-gan'
Origin: a primitive root
x. And it came to pass, when the minstrel
nagan (Hebrew #5059)
properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
KJV usage: player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Pronounce: naw-gan'
Origin: a primitive root
played
nagan (Hebrew #5059)
properly, to thrum, i.e. beat a tune with the fingers; expec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (generally), to make music
KJV usage: player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play(-er, -ing).
Pronounce: naw-gan'
Origin: a primitive root
, that the hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
y of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
came upon him.

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bring me.This was evidently intended to soothe and tranquillize the prophet's mind, which had been agitated and discomposed with holy indignation by the presence of the idolatrous king, and the recollection of his abomination.
The soothing influence of music is generally acknowledged in every civilized nation.
the hand.
 In order to speak of deliverance he needs to abstract himself from that which is before his eyes and which might rouse him to pronounce a sentence of judgment without mercy. “Now fetch me a minstrel,” he says. How could he better abstract himself than by lifting up his soul to God, for it was upon stringed instruments that the heart of the believer would breathe up to Jehovah his praise, his desires, his needs, or his complaints. (Jehoram and the War Against Moab: 2 Kings 3 by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now fetch me a minstrel. And it came to pass when the minstrel played, that the hand of Jehovah was upon him.