What Does 2 Samuel 15:36 Mean?
Look, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, son of Zadok, and Jonathan, son of Abiathar. By their hand you will send to me every word that you hear.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.THE KEY
Hearing and sending are one relay: what is received becomes what is released onward.
THE MEANING
A living channel of knowledge reaches you through people who hear and send what they receive. Hearing and sending belong to one movement: information becomes available as it is carried onward.
THE ROOT
תִּשְׁלְחוּ
tishleḥu
GROWS FROM
שׁלח
sh-l-ḥ
Send, send forth, or release.
English “send” can sound like mere delivery, but שׁלח (sh-l-ḥ) also carries the sense of sending forth or letting go. Here, what the listeners hear is released through intermediaries and carried onward.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: To send, dispatch, or send away.
שָׁלַח
This verb names the movement at the center of the verse: the report leaves the listeners and is carried to David.
shilluaḥ: Sending away or dismissal.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This noun makes the send-away shade visible: what is held at one point can be released and carried elsewhere.
תִּשְׁמָעוּן
tishmeʿun
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear, listen, or attend.
“hear” in this verse is tishmeʿun. The root can name both hearing and a report or tidings: what reaches the ear becomes something that can be carried onward. The sons are not merely listeners; they are the channel through which what is heard becomes news for David.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: To hear, listen, or attend.
שָׁמַע
This verb is the act the sons perform before the information travels: they receive what can then be sent.
shemuʿah: A report, tidings, or something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This noun names heard content as a report, linking reception directly to the message passed along.
THE PATTERN
What is entrusted to a messenger travels onward as a message or mission.
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told the Great House, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may dance a feast to me in the wilderness.But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a youth, for to all that I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.THE THREAD
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told the Great House, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may dance a feast to me in the wilderness.The Hebrew verb behind “send” here comes from שׁלח (sh-l-ḥ), the same root in the command “Let my people go.” The channel carrying heard reports therefore echoes the root’s wider movement of sending forth and release.
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