And it came to pass when Ahab
'Ach'ab (akh-awb')
brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon -- Ahab.
heard
shama` (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
those words
dabar (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
that he rent
qara` (kaw-rah')
to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them) -- cut out, rend, surely, tear.
his clothes
beged (behg'-ed)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage -- apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
and put
suwm (soom)
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)wholly, work.
sackcloth
saq (sak)
a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.) -- sack(-cloth, -clothes).
upon his flesh
basar (baw-sawr')
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man -- body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
and fasted
tsuwm (tsoom)
to cover over (the mouth), i.e. to fast -- at all, fast.
and lay
shakab (shaw-kab')
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
in sackcloth
saq (sak)
a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.) -- sack(-cloth, -clothes).
and went
halak (haw-lak')
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
softly
'at (at)
(as a noun) a necromancer (from their soft incantations), (as an adverb) gently -- charmer, gently, secret, softly.
