2 Samuel 4:6
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

Young's Literal Translation
and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth [rib], and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped;

King James Bible
And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

Hebrew
They entered
בָּ֜אוּ (bā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the interior
תּ֤וֹךְ (tō·wḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

of the house
הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

as if to get
לֹקְחֵ֣י (lō·qə·ḥê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3947: To take

some wheat,
חִטִּ֔ים (ḥiṭ·ṭîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2406: Wheat

and they stabbed him
וַיַּכֻּ֖הוּ (way·yak·ku·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

in
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the stomach.
הַחֹ֑מֶשׁ (ha·ḥō·meš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2570: The abdomen

Then Rechab
וְרֵכָ֛ב (wə·rê·ḵāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7394: Rechab -- perhaps 'band of riders', a Benjamite, also the head of a nomadic family

and his brother
אָחִ֖יו (’ā·ḥîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

Baanah
וּבַעֲנָ֥ה (ū·ḇa·‘ă·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1196: Baanah -- the name of several Israelites

slipped away.
נִמְלָֽטוּ׃ (nim·lā·ṭū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4422: To be smooth, to escape, to release, rescue, to bring forth young, emit sparks

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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