📜 INTERLINEAR BIBLE STUDY

1 Samuel 18:3
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת כָּרַת H3772 HC/Vqw3ms כָּרַת a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
2 יְהוֹנָתָ֛ן יְהוֹנָתָן H3083 HNp יְהוֹנָתָן from יְהֹוָה and נָתַן; Jehovah-given; Jehonathan, the name of four Israelites: Jonathan. Compare יוֹנָתָן.
3 וְ/דָוִ֖ד דָּוִיד H1732 HC/Np דָּוִיד rarely (fully); Daviyd; from the same as דּוֹד; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse: David.
4 בְּרִ֑ית בְּרִית H1285 HNcfsa בְּרִית from בָּרָה (in the sense of cutting (like בָּרָא)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
5 בְּ/אַהֲבָת֥/וֹ אַהֲבָה H160 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms אַהֲבָה feminine of אֲהָבִים and meaning the same: love.
6 אֹת֖/וֹ אוֹת H853 HTo/Sp3ms 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).
7 כְּ/נַפְשֽׁ/וֹ נָ֫פֶשׁ H5315 HR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms 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.