2 Kings 4:29
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith to Gehazi, ‘Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go; when thou dost meet a man, thou dost not salute him; and when a man doth salute thee, thou dost not answer him; and thou hast laid my staff on the face of the youth.’

King James Bible
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

Hebrew
So Elisha said
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to Gehazi,
לְגֵיחֲזִ֜י (lə·ḡê·ḥă·zî)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1522: Gehazi -- perhaps 'valley of vision', servant of Elisha

“Tie up
חֲגֹ֣ר (ḥă·ḡōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 2296: To gird, gird on, gird oneself

your garment,
מָתְנֶ֗יךָ (mā·ṯə·ne·ḵā)
Noun - mdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4975: The waist, small of the back, the loins

take
וְקַ֨ח (wə·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

my staff
מִשְׁעַנְתִּ֣י (miš·‘an·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4938: Support, sustenance, a walking-stick

in your hand,
בְיָדְךָ֮ (ḇə·yā·ḏə·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

and go!
וָלֵךְ֒ (wā·lêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you meet
תִמְצָ֥א (ṯim·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

anyone,
אִישׁ֙ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

greet him,
תְבָרְכֶ֔נּוּ (ṯə·ḇā·rə·ḵen·nū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

and if
וְכִֽי־ (wə·ḵî-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

anyone
אִ֖ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

greets you,
יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ (yə·ḇā·reḵ·ḵā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

answer him.
תַעֲנֶנּ֑וּ (ṯa·‘ă·nen·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

Then lay
וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ (wə·śam·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

my staff
מִשְׁעַנְתִּ֖י (miš·‘an·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4938: Support, sustenance, a walking-stick

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

the boy’s
הַנָּֽעַר׃ (han·nā·‘ar)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

face.”
פְּנֵ֥י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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