2 Samuel 13:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’ ”

Young's Literal Translation
And Jonadab saith to him, ‘Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, ‘Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see [it], and have eaten from her hand.’

King James Bible
And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.

Hebrew
Jonadab
יְה֣וֹנָדָ֔ב (yə·hō·w·nā·ḏāḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3082: Jonadab -- 'the LORD is noble', a Rechabite, also a nephew of David

told
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

him,
לוֹ֙ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

“Lie down
שְׁכַ֥ב (šə·ḵaḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7901: To lie down

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

your bed
מִשְׁכָּבְךָ֖ (miš·kā·ḇə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4904: Place of lying, a couch, act of lying

and pretend you are ill.
וְהִתְחָ֑ל (wə·hiṯ·ḥāl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 2470: To be weak or sick

When your father
אָבִ֣יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

comes
וּבָ֧א (ū·ḇā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to see you,
לִרְאוֹתֶ֗ךָ (lir·’ō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

say
וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ (wə·’ā·mar·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to him,
אֵלָ֡יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

‘Please
נָא֩ (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

let my sister
אֲחוֹתִ֜י (’ă·ḥō·w·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 269: Sister -- a sister

Tamar
תָמָ֨ר (ṯā·mār)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 8559: Tamar -- daughter-in-law of Judah, also two Israelite women, also a place South of the Dead Sea

come
תָּ֣בֹא (tā·ḇō)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and give me something
וְתַבְרֵ֣נִי (wə·ṯaḇ·rê·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 1262: To select, to feed, to render clear

to eat.
לֶ֗חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

Let her prepare
וְעָשְׂתָ֤ה (wə·‘ā·śə·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

[it]
הַבִּרְיָ֔ה (hab·bir·yāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1279: Food

in my sight
לְעֵינַי֙ (lə·‘ê·nay)
Preposition-l | Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

so
לְמַ֙עַן֙ (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

I may watch her
אֶרְאֶ֔ה (’er·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and eat it
וְאָכַלְתִּ֖י (wə·’ā·ḵal·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 398: To eat

from her hand.��
מִיָּדָֽהּ׃ (mî·yā·ḏāh)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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