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1 Samuel 9:21
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📖 King James Version

And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וַ/יַּ֨עַן עָנָה H6030 HC/Vqw3ms עָנָה a primitive root; properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce: give account, afflict (by mistake for `anah), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for `anah), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also בֵּית עֲנוֹת, בֵּית עֲנָת.
2 שָׁא֜וּל שָׁאוּל H7586 HNp שָׁאוּל passive participle of שָׁאַל; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites: Saul, Shaul.
3 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר אָמַר H559 HC/Vqw3ms 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.
4 הֲ/ל֨וֹא לֹא H3808 HTi/Tn לֹא or lowi; or loh (Deut. 3:11); a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows): X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
5 בֶן בֶּן־יְמִינִי H1145 HNcmsc בֶּן־יְמִינִי sometimes (with the article inserted) Ben-ha-yminiy; with אּישׁ inserted (1 Sam. 9:1) Ben-miysh Ymiyniy; son of a man of Jemini; or shortened (1 Sam. 9:4; Esth. 2:5) Iysh Ymiyniy; a man of Jemini, or (1 Sam. 20:1) simply Yminiy; a Jeminite; (plural Bniy Ymiyniy; patron from בִּנְיָמִן; a Benjaminite, or descendent of Benjamin: Benjamite, of Benjamin.
6 יְמִינִ֤י בֶּן־יְמִינִי H1145 HNgmsa בֶּן־יְמִינִי sometimes (with the article inserted) Ben-ha-yminiy; with אּישׁ inserted (1 Sam. 9:1) Ben-miysh Ymiyniy; son of a man of Jemini; or shortened (1 Sam. 9:4; Esth. 2:5) Iysh Ymiyniy; a man of Jemini, or (1 Sam. 20:1) simply Yminiy; a Jeminite; (plural Bniy Ymiyniy; patron from בִּנְיָמִן; a Benjaminite, or descendent of Benjamin: Benjamite, of Benjamin.
7 אָ֨נֹכִי֙ אָנֹכִי H595 HPp1cs אָנֹכִי; a primitive pro.; I: I, me, X which.
8 מִ/קַּטַנֵּי֙ קָטָן H6996 HR/Aampc קָטָן or qaton; from קוּט; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance): least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
9 שִׁבְטֵ֣י שָׁ֫בֶט H7626 HNcmpc שָׁ֫בֶט from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
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 וּ/מִשְׁפַּחְתִּ/י֙ מִשְׁפָּחָה H4940 HC/Ncfsc/Sp1cs מִשְׁפָּחָה from שָׁפָה (compare שִׁפְחָה); a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extens. a tribe or people: family, kind(-red).
12 הַ/צְּעִרָ֔ה צָעִיר H6810 HTd/Aafsa צָעִיר or tsanowr; from צָעַר; little; (in number) few; (in age) young, (in value) ignoble: least, little (one), small (one), + young(-er, -est).
13 מִ/כָּֽל כֹּל H3605 HR/Ncmsc כֹּל or (Jer. 33:8) kowl; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense): (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-)thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
14 מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת מִשְׁפָּחָה H4940 HNcfpc מִשְׁפָּחָה from שָׁפָה (compare שִׁפְחָה); a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extens. a tribe or people: family, kind(-red).
15 שִׁבְטֵ֣י שָׁ֫בֶט H7626 HNcmpc שָׁ֫בֶט from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
16 בִנְיָמִ֑ן בִּנְיָמִן H1144 HNp בִּנְיָמִן from בֵּן and יָמִין; son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory: Benjamin.
17 וְ/לָ֨/מָּה֙ מָה H4100 HC/R/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
18 דִּבַּ֣רְתָּ דָּבַר H1696 HVpp2ms דָּבַר a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
19 אֵלַ֔/י אֶל H413 HR/Sp1cs 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).
20 כַּ/דָּבָ֖ר דָּבָר H1697 HRd/Ncmsa דָּבָר from דָּבַר; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
21 הַ/זֶּֽה זֶה H2088 HTd/Pdxms זֶה a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that: he, X hence, X here, it(-self), X now, X of him, the one...the other, X than the other, (X out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, X thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זוֹ, זוֹ, זוּ.