1 Samuelchapter 17
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David Slays Goliath, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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1 Samuel 17— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
The champion of Gath defies the armies of Israel1
1 Samuel 17:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on I Samuel 17:1
At Ephes Damim. This was the name of the place. 1 It literally means ‘no more blood’ because it was there that the bloodshed between the Bnei Yisroel and the Philistines ceased.—Radak
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David comes with bread and cheeses, and hears the taunt12
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Rashi on I Samuel 17:12
Ephrathite. Beis Lechem is located in the land of Ephros. 5 See Bereishis:19.
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Rashi on I Samuel 17:14
Dovid was the youngest. Who had previously been in Shaul's palace to play music before him.
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Rashi on I Samuel 17:15
Dovid would go. Would always go back and forth from Shaul to his father's house. 8 Dovid was not permanently assigned to be with Shaul. Dovid played music for Shaul when the evil spirit rested upon him. At all other times he would return home to tend his father’s sheep.
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Rashi on I Samuel 17:16
Morning and evening. Our Rabbis said, to prevent them from reciting 'shema.' 9 See Maseches Sotah 42b.
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Armor refused; five smooth stones from the brook31
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The battle is Jehovah's — a stone in the forehead41
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Whose son is this youth?55
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