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1 Samuel 17:10

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If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.	And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.	When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And the Philistine^H6430 said^H559, I defy^H2778 the armies^H4634 of Israel^H3478 this day^H3117; give^H5414 me a man^H376, that we may fight^H3898 together^H3162.

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Original Hebrew

וַיֹּאמֶר הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי אֲנִי חֵרַפְתִּי אֶת־מַעַרְכֹות יִשְׂרָאֵל הַיֹּום הַזֶּה תְּנוּ־לִי אִישׁ וְנִלָּחֲמָה יָחַד׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙	va/i.Yo.mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י	ha./pe.lish.Ti	H6430	HTd/Ngmsa	the/ Philistine
אֲנִ֗י	'a.Ni	H589	HPp1cs	I
חֵרַ֛פְתִּי	che.Raf.ti	H2778	HVpp1cs	I defy
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
מַעַרְכ֥וֹת	ma.'ar.Khot	H4634	HNcfpc	(the) battle lines of
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HNp	Israel
הַ/יּ֣וֹם	hai./Yom	H3117	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ day
הַ/זֶּ֑ה	ha./Zeh	H2088	HTd/Pdxms	(the)/ this
תְּנוּ	te.nu-	H5414	HVqv2mp	give
לִ֣/י	l/i		HR/Sp1cs	to (the)/ me
אִ֔ישׁ	'Ish	H376	HNcmsa	a man
וְ/נִֽלָּחֲמָ֖ה	ve./ni.la.cha.Mah	H3898	HC/VNh1cp	so/ let us fight
יָֽחַד	Ya.chad	H3162	HNcmsa	together

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

Strong's References

• H376 — אִישׁ (ʼîysh, eesh): contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation); also, another, any (man), a certain, [phrase] champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), [phrase] none, one, people, person, [phrase] steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare אִשָּׁה.
• 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.
• H2778 — חָרַף (châraph, khaw-raf'): a primitive root; also denominative (from חֹרֶף); to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; to spend the winter; betroth, blaspheme, defy, jeopard, rail, reproach, upbraid.
• H3117 — יוֹם (yôwm, yome): from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb); age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.
• H3162 — יַחַד (yachad, yakh'-ad): from יָחַד; properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly; alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-) together, withal.
• H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
• H3898 — לָחַם (lâcham, law-kham'): a primitive root; to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction); devour, eat, [idiom] ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
• H4634 — מַעֲרָכָה (maʻărâkâh, mah-ar-aw-kaw'): feminine of מַעֲרָךְ; an arrangement; concretely, a pile; specifically a military array; army, fight, be set in order, ordered place, rank, row.
• H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.
• H6430 — פְּלִשְׁתִּי (Pᵉlishtîy, pel-ish-tee'): patrial from פְּלֶשֶׁת; a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth; Philistine.

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

• H589 — אֲנִי (ʼănîy, an-ee'): lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): 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).
• 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.

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