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1 Samuel 11

1 Sam. 11:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Nahash
Nachash (Hebrew #5176)
Nachash, the name of two persons apparently non-Israelite
KJV usage: Nahash.
Pronounce: naw-khawsh'
Origin: the same as 5175
the Ammonite
`Ammowniy (Hebrew #5984)
an Ammonite or (the adjective) Ammonitish
KJV usage: Ammonite(-s).
Pronounce: am-mo-nee'
Origin: patronymically from 5983
answered
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
them, On this
zo'th (Hebrew #2063)
this (often used adverb)
KJV usage: hereby (-in, -with), it, likewise, the one (other, same), she, so (much), such (deed), that, therefore, these, this (thing), thus.
Pronounce: zothe'
Origin: irregular feminine of 2089
v condition will I make
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
a covenant with you, that I may thrust out
naqar (Hebrew #5365)
to bore (penetrate, quarry)
KJV usage: dig, pick out, pierce, put (thrust) out.
Pronounce: naw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
all your right
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
, and lay
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
it for a reproach
cherpah (Hebrew #2781)
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Pronounce: kher-paw'
Origin: from 2778
w upon all Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Prov. 12:10• 10A righteous man is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (Prov. 12:10)
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1 Sam. 17:26• 26And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? (1 Sam. 17:26)

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Ministry on This Verse

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On this.
2 Kings 18:31• 31Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me, and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern; (2 Kings 18:31)
thrust.
Judg. 16:21• 21And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house. (Judg. 16:21)
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Ex. 3:6• 6And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God. (Ex. 3:6)
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Prov. 12:10• 10A righteous man is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (Prov. 12:10)
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Jer. 39:7• 7and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, to carry him to Babylon. (Jer. 39:7)
reproach.
1 Sam. 17:26• 26And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? (1 Sam. 17:26)
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Gen. 34:14• 14and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us. (Gen. 34:14)
• Nahash responds to this proposal only with scorn; such is all we can gain from our weak concessions to the world and from our lack of faith! The men of Jabesh do not even think of the deliverer whom God had just given them. (“1 Samuel 11” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I treat with you, that I thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.