| “And Elijah” | אֵֽלִיָּ֗הוּ | Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites | Elijah |
| “answered” | וַיַּֽעֲנֶ֣ה | Properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce | answered |
| “and said” | וַיְדַבֵּר֮ | Perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue | said |
| “to” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | to |
| “the captain” | שַׂ֣ר | A head person (of any rank or class) | captain |
| “of fifty,” | הַֽחֲמִשִּׁים֒ | Fifty | fifty |
| “If” | וְאִם | Used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not | If |
| “I” | אָ֔נִי | I | I |
| “be” | | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | |
| “a man” | אִ֤ישׁ | A man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation) | man |
| “of God,” | אֱלֹהִים֙ | Gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative | God |
| “then let fire” | אֵשׁ֙ | Fire (literally or figuratively) | then let fire |
| “come down” | תֵּ֤רֶד | To descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications) | come down |
| “from” | מִן | Properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses | from |
| “heaven,” | הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם | The sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) | heaven |
| “and consume” | וְתֹאכַ֥ל | To eat (literally or figuratively) | consume |
| “thee and thy fifty.” | חֲמִשֶּׁ֑יךָ | Fifty | fifty |
| “And there came down” | וַתֵּ֤רֶד | To descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications) | came down |
| “fire” | אֵשׁ֙ | Fire (literally or figuratively) | fire |
| “from” | מִן | Properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses | from |
| “heaven,” | הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם | The sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) | heaven |
| “and consumed” | וַתֹּ֥אכַל | To eat (literally or figuratively) | consumed |
| “him and his fifty.” | חֲמִשָּֽׁיו׃ | Fifty | fifty |