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1 Samuel 18:3


1 Samuel 18:2 1 Samuel 18:3 (KJV) 1 Samuel 18:4
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Then JonathanH3083 and DavidH1732 madeH3772 a covenantH1285, because he lovedH160 him as his own soulH5315.


Original Hebrew

וַיִּכְרֹת יְהֹונָתָן וְדָוִד בְּרִית בְּאַהֲבָתֹו אֹתֹו כְּנַפְשֹׁו׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת
va/i.yikh.Rot H3772 HC/Vqw3ms and/ he made
יְהוֹנָתָ֛ן
ye.ho.na.Tan H3083 HNp Jonathan
וְ/דָוִ֖ד
ve./da.Vid H1732 HC/Np and/ David
בְּרִ֑ית
be.Rit H1285 HNcfsa a covenant
בְּ/אַהֲבָת֥/וֹ
be./'a.ha.va.T/o H160 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms in/ love/ his
אֹת֖/וֹ
'o.T/o H853 HTo/Sp3ms (obj.)/ him
כְּ/נַפְשֽׁ/וֹ
ke./naf.Sh/o H5315 HR/Ncbsc/Sp3ms like/ own self/ his
Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)
Strong's References
  • H160 — אַהֲבָה (ʼahăbâh, a-hab-aw): feminine of אַהַב and meaning the same; {affection (in a good or a bad sense)}; love.
  • H1285 — בְּרִית (bᵉrîyth, ber-eeth'): 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.
  • H1732 — דָּוִד (Dâvid, daw-veed'): rarely (fully); דָּוִיד; from the same as דּוֹד; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse; David.
  • H3083 — יְהוֹנָתָן (Yᵉhôwnâthân, yeh-ho-naw-thawn'): from יְהֹוָה and נָתַן; Jehovah-given; Jehonathan, the name of four Israelites; Jonathan. Compare יוֹנָתָן.
  • H3772 — כָּרַת (kârath, kaw-rath'): 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), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.
  • H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): 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, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.

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

  • 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).

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