2 Kings 4:40
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

Young's Literal Translation
and they pour out for the men to eat, and it cometh to pass at their eating of the pottage, that they have cried out, and say, ‘Death [is] in the pot, O man of God!’ and they have not been able to eat.

King James Bible
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat [thereof].

Hebrew
And they poured it out
וַיִּֽצְק֥וּ (way·yiṣ·qū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3332: To pour out, to melt, cast as metal, to place firmly, to stiffen, grow hard

for the men
לַאֲנָשִׁ֖ים (la·’ă·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

to eat,
לֶאֱכ֑וֹל (le·’ĕ·ḵō·wl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

but when they tasted
כְּאָכְלָ֨ם (kə·’ā·ḵə·lām)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the stew
מֵהַנָּזִ֜יד (mê·han·nā·zîḏ)
Preposition-m, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5138: Something sodden or boiled, pottage

they
וְהֵ֣מָּה (wə·hêm·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

cried out,
צָעָ֗קוּ (ṣā·‘ā·qū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6817: To shriek, to proclaim

“There is death
מָ֤וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

in the pot,
בַּסִּיר֙ (bas·sîr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 5518: A pot, a thorn, a hook

O man
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of God!”
הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

And they could not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

eat [it].
לֶאֱכֹֽל׃ (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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