1 Samuel 25:39
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.This verse in the real world
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- אֲבִיגַיִלʼĂbîygayilAbigail or Abigal, the name of two Israelitesses
- נָבָלNâbâlNabal, an Israelite
- חָשַׂךְchâsakto restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe
- רִיבrîyba contest (personal or legal)
- רִיבrîybproperly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy;
- חֶרְפָּהcherpâhcontumely, disgrace, the pudenda
- בָרַךְbârakto kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a
- רֹאשׁrôʼshthe head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of
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