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Commentary for II Kings 9:4

וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ הַנַּ֛עַר הַנַּ֥עַר הַנָּבִ֖יא רָמֹ֥ת גִּלְעָֽד׃

So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

Rashi on II Kings

The lad, the prophet’s disciple. The disciple of Elisha the prophet,3Rashi is explaining the reason for the repetition of הַנַּעַר in this verse. so rendered [Targum] Yonoson, “and the lad, the disciple of the prophet, went.”4Alternatively, “and the lad, the lad who was a prophet [in his own right], went.”—Malbim
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