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1 Samuel 4

1 Sam. 4:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
'owy (Hebrew #188)
lamentation; also interjectionally Oh!
KJV usage: alas, woe.
Pronounce: o'-ee
Origin: probably from 183 (in the sense of crying out after)
unto us! who shall deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
us out of the hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
of these mighty
'addiyr (Hebrew #117)
wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful
KJV usage: excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(- ier one), noble, principal, worthy.
Pronounce: ad-deer'
Origin: from 142
Gods
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
? these are the Gods
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
that smote
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the Egyptians
Mitsrayim (Hebrew #4714)
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
KJV usage: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
Pronounce: mits-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of 4693
with all the plagues
makkah (Hebrew #4347)
(plural only) from 5221; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
KJV usage: beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)).
Pronounce: mak-kaw'
Origin: or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
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Cross References

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Ex. 7:5• 5{i}And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.{/i} (Ex. 7:5)
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Ex. 9:14• 14{i}For I will at this time send all my plagues to thy heart, and on thy bondmen, and on thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.{/i} (Ex. 9:14)
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Psa. 78:43‑51• 43How he set his signs in Egypt{HR}And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
 44And turned their rivers to blood,{HR}And their streams that they could not drink.
 45He sent among them dogflies, and they devoured them;{HR}And frogs, and they destroyed them.
 46And he gave their increase to the caterpillar,{HR}And their labour to the locust.
 47He killed their vines with the hail,{HR}And their sycamore trees with the frost,
 48And delivered their cattle to the hail{HR}And their flocks to the lightnings.
 49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,{HR}Wrath, and indignation, and distress,{HR}By sending angels of woes.
 50He made a path for his anger,{HR}He withheld their soul from death,{HR}And their life he gave over to the pestilence;
 51And he smote every first-born in Egypt,{HR}The first fruits of vigour in the tents of Ham. (Psa. 78:43‑51)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

W. Kelly Translation

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Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

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.)