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1 Samuel 15:14

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And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.	And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?	And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And Samuel^H8050 said^H559, What meaneth then this bleating^H6963 of the sheep^H6629 in mine ears^H241, and the lowing^H6963 of the oxen^H1241 which I hear^H8085?

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Original Hebrew

וַיֹּאמֶר שְׁמוּאֵל וּמֶה קֹול־הַצֹּאן הַזֶּה בְּאָזְנָי וְקֹול הַבָּקָר אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי שֹׁמֵעַ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר	va/i.Yo.mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל	she.mu.'El	H8050	HNp	Samuel
וּ/מֶ֛ה	u./Meh	H4100	HC/Ti	and/ what?
קֽוֹל	kol-	H6963	HNcmsc	(is) (the) sound of
הַ/צֹּ֥אן	ha./Tzon	H6629	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ sheep
הַ/זֶּ֖ה	ha./Zeh	H2088	HTd/Pdxms	(the)/ this
בְּ/אָזְנָ֑/י	be./'a.ze.Na/i	H241	HR/Ncfdc/Sp1cs	in/ ears/ my
וְ/ק֣וֹל	ve./Kol	H6963	HC/Ncmsc	and/ (the) sound of
הַ/בָּקָ֔ר	ha./ba.Kar	H1241	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ cattle
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
אָנֹכִ֖י	'a.no.Khi	H595	HPp1cs	I
שֹׁמֵֽעַ	sho.Me.a'	H8085	HVqrmsa	(am) hearing

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

Strong's References

• H241 — אֹזֶן (ʼôzen, o'-zen): from אָזַן; broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man); [phrase] advertise, audience, [phrase] displease, ear, hearing, [phrase] show.
• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H1241 — בָּקָר (bâqâr, baw-kawr'): from בָּקַר; beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd; beeve, bull ([phrase] -ock), [phrase] calf, [phrase] cow, great (cattle), [phrase] heifer, herd, kine, ox.
• H6629 — צֹאן (tsôʼn, tsone): or צאוֹן; (Psalm 144:13), from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men); (small) cattle, flock ([phrase] -s), lamb ([phrase] -s), sheep(-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds).
• H6963 — קוֹל (qôwl, kole): or קֹל; from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound; [phrase] aloud, bleating, crackling, cry ([phrase] out), fame, lightness, lowing, noise, [phrase] hold peace, (pro-) claim, proclamation, [phrase] sing, sound, [phrase] spark, thunder(-ing), voice, [phrase] yell.
• H8050 — שְׁמוּאֵל (Shᵉmûwʼêl, sehm-oo-ale'): from the passive participle of שָׁמַע and אֵל; heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites; Samuel, Shemuel.
• H8085 — שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ, shaw-mah'): a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.); [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

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

• H595 — אָנֹכִי (ʼânôkîy, aw-no-kee'): sometimes, aw-no'-kee; a primitive pronoun; I; I, me, [idiom] which.
• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H2088 — זֶה (zeh, zeh): a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that; he, [idiom] hence, [idiom] here, it(-self), [idiom] now, [idiom] of him, the one...the other, [idiom] than the other, ([idiom] out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, [idiom] thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זֹה, זוֹ, זוּ.
• H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; 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.

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