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1 Kings 20:31
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ אָמַר H559 HC/Vqw3mp אָמַר a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude): answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
2 אֵלָי/ו֮ אֶל H413 HR/Sp3ms אֶל (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
3 עֲבָדָי/ו֒ עָ֫בֶד H5650 HNcmpc/Sp3ms עָ֫בֶד from עָבַד; a servant: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
4 הִנֵּֽה הִנֵּה H2009 HTm הִנֵּה prolongation for הֵן; lo!: behold, lo, see.
5 נָ֣א נָא H4994 HTe נָא a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered: "I pray," "now," or "then"; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
6 שָׁמַ֔עְנוּ שָׁמַע H8085 HVqp1cp שָׁמַע a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.): X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
7 כִּ֗י כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
8 מַלְכֵי֙ מֶ֫לֶך H4428 HNcmpc מֶ֫לֶך from מָלַך; a king: king, royal.
9 בֵּ֣ית בָּ֫יִת H1004 HNcmsc בָּ֫יִת probably from בָּנָה abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.): court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 HNp יִשְׂרָאֵל from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: Israel.
11 כִּֽי כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
12 מַלְכֵ֥י מֶ֫לֶך H4428 HNcmpc מֶ֫לֶך from מָלַך; a king: king, royal.
13 חֶ֖סֶד חָ֫סֶד H2617 HNcmsa חָ֫סֶד from חָסַד; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
14 הֵ֑ם הֵם H1992 HPp3mp הֵם or (prolonged) hemmah; masculine plural from הֲלַך; they (only used when emphatic): it, like, X (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, X so, X such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
15 נָשִׂ֣ימָה שׂוּם H7760 HVqh1cp שׂוּם or siym; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically): X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
16 נָּא֩ נָא H4994 HTj נָא a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered: "I pray," "now," or "then"; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
17 שַׂקִּ֨ים שָׂק H8242 HNcmpa שָׂק from שָׁקַק; properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e. coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grain, etc.): sack(-cloth, -clothes).
18 בְּ/מָתְנֵ֜י/נוּ מָתְנָ֫יִם H4975 HR/Ncmdc/Sp1cp מָתְנָ֫יִם from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins: + greyhound, loins, side.
19 וַ/חֲבָלִ֣ים חֵ֫בֶל H2256 HC/Ncbpa חֵ֫בֶל or chebel; from חָבַל; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
20 בְּ/רֹאשֵׁ֗/נוּ רֹאשׁ H7218 HR/Ncmsc/Sp1cp רֹאשׁ from an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.): band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
21 וְ/נֵצֵא֙ יָצָא H3318 HC/Vqh1cp יָצָא a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
22 אֶל אֶל H413 HR אֶל (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
23 מֶ֣לֶךְ מֶ֫לֶך H4428 HNcmsc מֶ֫לֶך from מָלַך; a king: king, royal.
24 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 HNp יִשְׂרָאֵל from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: Israel.
25 אוּלַ֖י אוּלַי H194 HD אוּלַי or (shortened) rulay; from אַו; if not; hence perhaps: if so be, may be, peradventure, unless.
26 יְחַיֶּ֥ה חָיָה H2421 HVpi3ms חָיָה a primitive root (compare חָוָה, חָיָה); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
27 אֶת אוֹת H853 HTo אוֹת apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely): (as such unrepresented in English).
28 נַפְשֶֽׁ/ךָ נָ֫פֶשׁ H5315 HNcbsc/Sp2ms נָ֫פֶשׁ from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.