1 SAMUEL 28:22

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.”

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1 Samuel 28:22 Translation & Meaning

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Now וְעַתָּ֗ה At this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive Now
therefore, I pray thee, נָ֤א 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction therefore pray
hearken שְׁמַֽע To hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.) hearken
thou אַתָּה֙ Thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you thou
also גַם Properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and also
unto the voice בְּק֣וֹל A voice or sound voice
of thine handmaid, שִׁפְחָתֶ֔ךָ A female slave (as a member of the household) thine handmaid
and let me set וְאָשִׂ֧מָה To put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) let set
a morsel פַּת A bit morsel
of bread לֶ֖חֶם Food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it) bread
before לְפָנֶ֛יךָ The face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.) before
thee; and eat, וֶֽאֱכ֑וֹל To eat (literally or figuratively) eat
that thou mayest have וִיהִ֤י To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) mayest
strength, כֹּ֔חַ Vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard strength
when כִּ֥י (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed when
thou goest תֵלֵ֖ךְ To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) goest
on thy way. בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃ A road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb way

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  • 20  Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

  • 21  And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

  • 22  Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

  • 23  But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

  • 24  And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:




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