1 Samuel 16:2
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.”
יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
בָּקָר
cattle
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בָּקָר
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
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הָלַךְ
will I go
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הָלַךְ
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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עֶגְלָה
a heifer of
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עֶגְלָה
a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
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שָׁאוּל
Saul
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שָׁאוּל
Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites
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לָקַח
you will take
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לָקַח
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
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שְׁמוּאֵל
Samuel
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שְׁמוּאֵל
Shemuel, the name of three Israelites
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