2 Samuel 17:19
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And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.

spread a covering

Joshua 2:4-6 And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were: . . .

the thing

Exodus 1:19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

Context
Hushai's Warning Saves David
18But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it. 19And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.20And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into Jerusalem.…
Cross References
Exodus 9:33
And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.

Joshua 2:4
And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:

Lexicon
Then [the man's] wife
הָאִשָּׁ֗ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

took
וַתִּקַּ֣ח (wat·tiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

a covering
הַמָּסָךְ֙ (ham·mā·sāḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4539: A covering, screen

and spread
וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂ (wat·tip̄·rōś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6566: To break apart, disperse

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

the mouth
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

of the well
הַבְּאֵ֔ר (hab·bə·’êr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 875: A pit, a well

and scattered
וַתִּשְׁטַ֥ח (wat·tiš·ṭaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7849: To spread, spread abroad

grain
הָֽרִפ֑וֹת (hā·ri·p̄ō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7383: Perhaps grain

over it,
עָלָ֖יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

so nobody
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

would know
נוֹדַ֖ע (nō·w·ḏa‘)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

a thing.
דָּבָֽר׃ (dā·ḇār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause


Additional Translations
Then the man's wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well and scattered grain over it, so nobody would know a thing.And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

And a woman took a covering, and spread it over the mouth of the well, and spread out ground corn upon it to dry, and the thing was not known.

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised corn thereon; and nothing was known.

And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn upon it; and the thing was not known.

The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.
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