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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 17Hebrew 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.

1 Samuel 17:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

Rashi on I Samuel 17:15

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
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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