2 Kings 4:1
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”

Young's Literal Translation
And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, ‘Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.’

King James Bible
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

Hebrew
Now the wife
מִנְּשֵׁ֣י (min·nə·šê)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

of one
אַחַ֣ת (’a·ḥaṯ)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

of the sons
בְנֵֽי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of the prophets
הַ֠נְּבִיאִים (han·nə·ḇî·’îm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

cried out
צָעֲקָ֨ה (ṣā·‘ă·qāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6817: To shriek, to proclaim

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

Elisha,
אֱלִישָׁ֜ע (’ĕ·lî·šā‘)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 477: Elisha -- 'God is salvation', a well-known Israelite prophet

“Your servant,
עַבְדְּךָ֤ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

my husband,
אִישִׁי֙ (’î·šî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

is dead,
מֵ֔ת (mêṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

and you
וְאַתָּ֣ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

know
יָדַ֔עְתָּ (yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your servant
עַבְדְּךָ֔ (‘aḇ·də·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

feared
יָרֵ֖א (yā·rê)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

the LORD.
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

And now his creditor
וְהַ֨נֹּשֶׁ֔ה (wə·han·nō·šeh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5383: To lend, borrow on security, interest

is coming
בָּ֗א (bā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to take
לָקַ֜חַת (lā·qa·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3947: To take

my two
שְׁנֵ֧י (šə·nê)
Number - mdc
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

children
יְלָדַ֛י (yə·lā·ḏay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

as his slaves!�
לַעֲבָדִֽים׃ (la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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