2 Samuel 1:8

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And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here [am] I.	And he said unto me, Who [art] thou? And I answered him, I [am] an Amalekite.	He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And he said^H559 unto me, Who art thou? And I answered^H559 him, I am an Amalekite^H6003.

Original Hebrew

וַיֹּאמֶר לִי מִי־אָתָּה [וַיֹּאמֶר כ] (וָאֹמַר ק) אֵלָיו עֲמָלֵקִי אָנֹכִי׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר	va/i.Yo.mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
לִ֖/י	l/i		HR/Sp1cs	to (the)/ me
מִי	mi-	H4310	HTi	who?
אָ֑תָּה	'A.tah	H859	HPp2ms	(are) you
ו/יאמר	ʼâmar	H559	HC/Vqw3ms
אֵלָ֔י/ו	'e.La/v	H413	HR/Sp3ms	to/ him
עֲמָלֵקִ֖י	'a.mal.Ki	H6003	HNgmsa	(am) an Amalekite
אָנֹֽכִי	'a.No.khi	H595	HPp1cs	I

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

Strong's References

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.
H6003 — עֲמָלֵקִי (ʻĂmâlêqîy, am-aw-lay-kee'): patronymically from עֲמָלֵק; an Amalekite (or collectively the Amalekites) or descendants of Amalek; Amalekite(-s).

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).
H595 — אָנֹכִי (ʼânôkîy, aw-no-kee'): sometimes, aw-no'-kee; a primitive pronoun; I; I, me, [idiom] which.
H859 — אַתָּה (ʼattâh, at-taw'): or (shortened); אַתָּ; or אַת; feminine (irregular) sometimes אַתִּי; plural masculine אַתֶּם; feminine אַתֶּן; or אַתֵּנָהlemma אתֵּנָה missing vowel, corrected to אַתֵּנָה; or אַתֵּנָּה; a primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you; thee, thou, ye, you.
H4310 — מִי (mîy, me): an interrogative pronoun of persons, as מָה is of things,; who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix; any (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

an Amalekite — Genesis 14:7, Exodus 17:8-16, Numbers 24:20, Deuteronomy 25:17-19, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 27:8, 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:13, 1 Samuel 30:17

Reciprocal references (2): Exodus 17:14, 2 Samuel 1:13

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