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1 Kings

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 22 chapters

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1 Kings 1:1

וְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ זָקֵ֔ן בָּ֖א בַּיָּמִ֑ים וַיְכַסֻּ֨הוּ֙ בַּבְּגָדִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יִחַ֖ם לֽוֹ

and the king · David · to be old · to enter · in/at the days · and to cover him · in/at the garments · and not · to conceive · to/for him

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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of 1 Kings — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 326
  2. מֶ֫לֶךְ H4428 melek king 306
  3. יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 255
  4. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 237
  5. יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 Yisrâʼêl Israel 203
  6. הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 198
  7. בית H1004 bayith house 194
  8. בֵּן H1121 bên son 183
  9. שְׁלֹמֹה H8010 Shᵉlômôh Solomon 158
  10. עָשָׂה H6213 ʻâsâh to do 154
  11. דָּבָר H1697 dâbâr word 128
  12. בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 119

About this book

  • 22 Chapters
  • 816 Verses
  • 13,186 Hebrew words
  • 1,275 Distinct lemmas

1 Kings is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 22 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

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