“Then the princes” | שָׂרֵ֣י | A head person (of any rank or class) | Then princes |
“of the Philistines” | פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | A Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth | Philistines |
“went forth:” | וַיֵּֽצְא֖וּ | To go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim | forth |
“and it came to pass,” | וַיְהִ֣י׀ | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | came pass |
“after” | מִדֵּ֣י | Enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases | after |
“they went forth,” | צֵאתָ֗ם | To go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim | forth |
“that” | | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | |
“David” | דָּוִד֙ | David, the youngest son of Jesse | David |
“behaved himself more wisely” | שָׂכַ֤ל | To be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent | behaved himself more wisely |
“than all” | מִכֹּל֙ | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | than all |
“the servants” | עַבְדֵ֣י | A servant | servants |
“of Saul;” | שָׁא֔וּל | Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites | Saul |
“so that his name” | שְׁמ֖וֹ | An appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character | name |
“was much” | מְאֹֽד׃ | Properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated) | much |
“set by.” | וַיִּיקַ֥ר | Properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e., (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit) | set |