1 Samuel 17:46
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.”
מַחֲנֶה
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
יְהֹוָה
Yahweh
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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.
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רֹאשׁ
head/ your
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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יֵשׁ
there
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יֵשׁ
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
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פֶּגֶר
the corpses of
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פֶּגֶר
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
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פְּלִשְׁתִּי
the Philistines
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פְּלִשְׁתִּי
a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
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סָגַר
he will deliver up/ you
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סָגַר
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
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