Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleThen Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked— forty-two men. He spared none of them. Young's Literal Translation And he saith, ‘Catch them alive;’ and they catch them alive, and slaughter them at the pit of the shearing-house, forty and two men, and he hath not left a man of them. King James Bible And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them. Hebrew Then Jehu ordered,וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say “Take תִּפְשׂ֣וּם (tip̄·śūm) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably them alive.” חַיִּ֔ים (ḥay·yîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life So [his men] took וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂ֖וּם (way·yiṯ·pə·śūm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably them alive, חַיִּ֑ים (ḥay·yîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life then slaughtered them וַֽיִּשְׁחָט֞וּם (way·yiš·ḥā·ṭūm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 7819: To slaughter, beat at אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to the well בּ֣וֹר (bō·wr) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 953: A pit, cistern, well of בֵּֽית־ (bêṯ-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew Beth-eked— עֵ֗קֶד (‘ê·qeḏ) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1044: Beth-eked -- 'house of binding', a place in Palestine forty-two אַרְבָּעִ֤ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's 705: Forty men. אִ֔ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person He וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no spared הִשְׁאִ֥יר (hiš·’îr) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7604: To swell up, be, redundant none אִ֖ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person of them. מֵהֶֽם׃ (mê·hem) Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They |