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1 Kings 9:28

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And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.	And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.	And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And they came^H935 to Ophir^H211, and fetched^H3947 from thence gold^H2091, four^H702 hundred^H3967 and twenty^H6242 talents^H3603, and brought^H935 it to king^H4428 Solomon^H8010.

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Original Hebrew

וַיָּבֹאוּ אֹופִירָה וַיִּקְחוּ מִשָּׁם זָהָב אַרְבַּע־מֵאֹות וְעֶשְׂרִים כִּכָּר וַיָּבִאוּ אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה׃ פ

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יָּבֹ֣אוּ	va/i.ya.Vo.'u	H935	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they went
אוֹפִ֔ירָ/ה	'o.Fi.ra/h	H211	HNp/Sd	Ophir/ towards
וַ/יִּקְח֤וּ	va/i.yik.Chu	H3947	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they took
מִ/שָּׁם֙	mi./Sham	H8033	HR/D	from/ there
זָהָ֔ב	za.Hav	H2091	HNcmsa	gold
אַרְבַּע	'ar.ba'-	H702	HAcfsa	four
מֵא֥וֹת	me.'ot	H3967	HAcbpa	hundred(s)
וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֖ים	ve./'es.Rim	H6242	HC/Acbpa	and/ twenty
כִּכָּ֑ר	ki.Kar	H3603	HNcbsa	talent(s)
וַ/יָּבִ֖אוּ	va/i.ya.Vi.'u	H935	HC/Vhw3mp	and/ they brought (it)
אֶל	'el-	H413	HR	to
הַ/מֶּ֥לֶךְ	ha./Me.lekh	H4428	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ king
שְׁלֹמֹֽה	she.lo.Moh	H8010	HNp	Solomon

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H211 — אוֹפִיר (ʼÔwphîyr, o-feer'): or (shortened) אֹפִיר; and אוֹפִר; of uncertain derivation; Ophir, the name of a son of Joktan, and of a gold region in the East; Ophir.
• H702 — אַרְבַּע (ʼarbaʻ, ar-bah'): masculine אַרְבָּעָה; from רָבַע; four; four.
• H935 — בּוֹא (bôwʼ, bo): a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
• H2091 — זָהָב (zâhâb, zaw-hawb'): from an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky; gold(-en), fair weather.
• H3603 — כִּכָּר (kikkâr, kik-kawr'): from כָּרַר; a circle, i.e. (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the Ghor or valley of the Jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or large [round] coin); loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent.
• H3947 — לָקַח (lâqach, law-kakh'): a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
• H3967 — מֵאָה (mêʼâh, may-aw'): or מֵאיָה; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction; hundred((-fold), -th), [phrase] sixscore.
• H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
• H6242 — עֶשְׂרִים (ʻesrîym, es-reem'): from עֶשֶׂר; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth; (six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
• H8010 — שְׁלֹמֹה (Shᵉlômôh, shel-o-mo'): from שָׁלוֹם; peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor; Solomon.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H413 — אֵל (ʼêl, ale): (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); 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, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
• H8033 — שָׁם (shâm, shawm): a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, אֲשֶׁר); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence; in it, [phrase] thence, there (-in, [phrase] of, [phrase] out), [phrase] thither, [phrase] whither.

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