2 Kings 4:19

19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

2 Kings 4:19 in Other Translations

19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

19 And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

19 Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”

19 complaining, "My head, my head!" His father ordered a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

19 [Suddenly], he complained to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

2 Kings 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:19

And he said unto his father, my head, my head
After he had been some time with him, he complained of a pain in his head, which might be owing, as Abarbinel thinks, to the sun's beating upon it, being harvest time, and hot weather; and the pain being exceeding great and vehement, he repeated his complaint, see ( Jeremiah 4:19 )

and he said to a lad, carry him home to his mother;
his father gave orders to a lad that attended the reapers to have him home to his mother, that she might give him something to ease him of his pain.

2 Kings 4:19 In-Context

17 But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20 After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.