1 Samuel 17:46
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.1 Samuel 17:46 in the real world
Who
In what words
- פֶּגֶרpegera carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
- עוֹףʻôwpha bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
- סָגַרçâgarto shut up; figuratively, to surrender
- יֵשׁyêshthere is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
- מַחֲנֶהmachănehan encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or
- פְּלִשְׁתִּיPᵉlishtîya Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
- סוּרçûwrto turn off (literal or figurative)
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimthe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move,
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Isa 52:10, Jos 4:24, 2Ki 19:19, 1Ki 8:43, Deu 28:26, Dan 6:26–27, Rev 19:17–18, Dan 2:47