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1 Kings 17

1 Kings 17:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Arise
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
, get
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
thee to Zarephath
Tsarphath (Hebrew #6886)
refinement; Tsarephath, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Zarephath.
Pronounce: tsaq-ref-ath'
Origin: from 6884
m, which belongeth to Zidon
Tsiydown (Hebrew #6721)
from 6679 in the sense of catching fish; fishery; Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Sidon, Zidon.
Pronounce: tsee-done'
Origin: or Tsiydon {tsee-done'}
, and dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
there: behold, I have commanded
tsavah (Hebrew #6680)
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
KJV usage: appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Pronounce: tsaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
a widow
'almanah (Hebrew #490)
a widow; also a desolate place
KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Pronounce: al-maw-naw'
Origin: fem of 488
woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
there to sustain
kuwl (Hebrew #3557)
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
KJV usage: (be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).
Pronounce: kool
Origin: a primitive root
thee.
m
Obad. 20• 20And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, between Sidon and Tyre, which is [with] the Canaanites, unto Zarephath [Sarepta]; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. (Obad. 20)
; Sarepta,
Luke 4:26• 26and to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a woman [that was] a widow. (Luke 4:26)

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Widow,
Woman,
Zarephath,
Zidon; Sidon

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Zarephath.
Obad. 20• 20And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, between Sidon and Tyre, which is [with] the Canaanites, unto Zarephath [Sarepta]; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. (Obad. 20)
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Luke 4:26• 26and to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a woman [that was] a widow. (Luke 4:26)
Sarepta.
which belongeth.
Matt. 15:21‑22• 21And Jesus going forth hence retired into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;
 22and, behold, a Canaanite woman coming out from those borders cried out, saying, Pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously possessed by a demon. (Matt. 15:21‑22)
widow woman.
1 Kings 17:4• 4And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. (1 Kings 17:4)
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Judg. 7:2,4• 2And Jehovah said to Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
 4And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. (Judg. 7:2,4)
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Rom. 4:17‑21• 17(even as it is written, “A father of many nations I have made thee”) before God whom he believed, that quickeneth the dead and calleth the things that be not as being;
 18who against hope believed in hope, in order to his becoming father of many nations according to that which was spoken, “So shall be thy seed.”
 19And not being weak in faith, he considered [not] his own body now dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
 20yet as to the promise of God wavered not through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
 21and fully persuaded that what he hath promised he is also able to perform. (Rom. 4:17‑21)
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2 Cor. 4:7• 7But we have this treasure in earthenware vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be God's, and not of us, (2 Cor. 4:7)
• We find a third thing in Luke’s account. If the message is carried to the nations, personified by a Zidonian widow, the widows of Israel are set aside. Judgment upon Israel’s state opens the door to the Gentiles to receive grace, and this, remarkably, in the very territory from whence Jezebel, that great corrupter of God’s people, came (1 Kings 16:31). (“Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath: 1 Kings 17:8-24” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Arise, go to Zarephath, which is by Zidon, and abide there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to maintain thee.

W. Kelly Translation

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Arise, go to Zarephath, which is by Zidon, and abide there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to maintain thee.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)