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1 Samuel 20:29

saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”

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ASV

and he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king’s table.

KJV

And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֡אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
שַׁלְּחֵ֣נִיsha.le.Che.nilet go meH7971 →
נָ֡אna'pleaseH4994 →
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
זֶבַח֩ze.Vacha sacrifice ofH2077 →
מִשְׁפָּחָ֨הmish.pa.Chah[the] clanH4940 →
לָ֜נוּLa.nu[belongs] to <the> us
בָּעִ֗ירba.'Irin the cityH5892 →
וְה֤וּאve.Hu'and heH1931 →
צִוָּֽה־tzi.vah-he has commandedH6680 →
לִי֙lito <the> me
אָחִ֔י'a.Chibrother myH251 →
וְעַתָּ֗הve.'a.Tahand thereforeH6258 →
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
מָצָ֤אתִיma.Tza.tiI have foundH4672 →
חֵן֙chenfavorH2580 →
בְּעֵינֶ֔יךָbe.'ei.Nei.khain view yourH5869 →
אִמָּ֥לְטָה'i.Mal.tahlet me slip awayH4422 →
נָּ֖אna'pleaseH4994 →
וְאֶרְאֶ֣הve.'er.'Ehso I may seeH7200 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אֶחָ֑י'e.Chaibrothers myH251 →
עַל־'al-there-H5921 →
כֵּ֣ןken-foreH3651 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
בָ֔אVa'he has comeH935 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
שֻׁלְחַ֖ןshul.Chan[the] table ofH7979 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ סha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →

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1 Samuel 16:2“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’1 Samuel 17:28Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”1 Samuel 6:14The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.Esther 8:5“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

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