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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

2 Reyes 6:5

Y aconteció que derribando uno un árbol, se le cayó el hacha en el agua; y dio voces, diciendo: ¡Ah, señor mío, que era prestada!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ax;   Thompson Chain Reference - Axes;   Bible Stories for Children;   Borrowing;   Business Life;   Children;   Credit System;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Iron;   Water;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Craft workers;   Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Axe;   Beam;   Iron;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Axe;   Iron (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Log;   Minerals and Metals;   Sons of the Prophets;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beam;   Jehoram;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Samaria;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joram;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Borrow, to;   Elisha ;   Miracles;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Elisha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ax (Axe);   Beam;   Disciple;   Elisha;   Head;   Jehoahaz;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Axe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Iron;   Metals;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Pero sucedió que cuando uno de ellos estaba derribando un tronco, el hierro del hacha se le cayó al agua; y gritó, y dijo: ¡Ah, señor mío, era prestado!
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Kings 6:5"> 5 Y aconteció que derribando uno un árbol, cayósele el hacha en el agua; y dió voces, diciendo: ­Ah, señor mío, que era emprestada!
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y aconteció que derribando uno un árbol, se le cayó el hacha en el agua; y dio voces, diciendo: ¡Ay, señor mío, que era prestada!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ax head: Heb. iron, Ecclesiastes 10:10, Isaiah 10:34

master: 2 Kings 6:15, 2 Kings 3:10, Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:16, Revelation 18:19

for it was borrowed: 2 Kings 4:7, Exodus 22:14, Exodus 22:15, Psalms 37:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:5 - head

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But as one was felling a beam,.... Cutting down a tree, or a branch of it:

the axe head fell into the water: into the waters of Jordan; or "the iron" d, the iron part of it, with which the wood was cut; that flew off from the helve into the water:

and he cried, and said, alas, master! for it was borrowed: it grieved him to lose his axe, because he could do no more work, and the more because it was not his own, but he had borrowed it of his neighbour; and still more, because, as it seems, he was poor, and not able to pay for it, which, being of an honest disposition, gave him distress.

d הברזל "ferrum", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ax head - literally, as in the margin. The Jews used iron for the heads of axes at a very early date (see Deuteronomy 19:5). They probably acquired a knowledge of the smelting process in Egypt, where iron was employed at least from the time of the third Rameses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 6:5. Alas, master! for it was borrowed. — אהה אדני והוא שאול ahah adonia, vehu shaul! Ah! ah, my master; and it has been sought. It has fallen in, and I have sought it in vain. Or, it was borrowed, and therefore I am the more afflicted for its loss; and Jarchi adds, I have nothing wherewith to repay it.


 
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