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1 Kings 12:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 12:5 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Kings 12:5 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/12/5.

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He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he said to them, “Go until three days, then return to me.” So the people went.

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And he said vnto them, Depart yet for three dayes, then come againe to me. And the people departed.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he said to them: Go till the third day, and come to me again. And when the people was gone,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And he saith unto them, `Go -- yet three days, and come back unto me;' and the people go.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he says to them, “Yet go [for] three days, and come back to me”; and the people go.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Rehoboam said to them, “Go away for three days, then come back to me.” So the people went away.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he said to them, “Go until three days, then return to me.” So the people went.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” So the people departed.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away and come back in three days' time.” So the people left.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And he said unto them: 'Depart yet for three days, then come again to me.' And the people departed.

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שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה
shâlôwsh
H7969
“three”
Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Adjective
Type
Cardinal number
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive number

TWOT: 2403a

three, triad - 3, 300, third
  1. וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם ʼêl H413 “to · them” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. לְכ֥וּ yâlak H3212 “walk” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  4. עֹ֛ד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
  5. יָמִ֖ים yôwm H3117 “days” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. וְשׁ֣וּבוּ shûwb H7725 “and · return” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
  7. אֵלָ֑י ʼêl H413 “to · me” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
  8. וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ yâlak H3212 “and · to walk” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. הָעָֽם ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10
words
8
distinct lemmas
Historical
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Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 adverb

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • לְכ֥וּ Qal · Imperative
  • וְשׁ֣וּבוּ Qal · Imperative
  • וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • לְכ֥וּ to walk H3212 ×2
  • אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 12:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 12:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם לְכ֥וּ עֹ֛ד שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה יָמִ֖ים וְשׁ֣וּבוּ אֵלָ֑י וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ הָעָֽם

He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 12:5 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον πρός αὐτός ἀποἔρχομαι ἕως ἡμέρα τρεῖς καί ἀναστρέφω πρός ἐγώ καί ἀποἔρχομαι

And he said to them, Depart for three days, and return to me. And they departed.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן אֱזִילוּ עוֹד תְּלָתָא יוֹמִין וְתוּבוּ לְוָתִי וַאֲזַלוּ עַמָא:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 12:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 12:5 And he said unto them, Depart yet [for] three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

Ver. 5. Depart yet for three days.] This was foolishly done, saith Pellican and Martyr, to give them three days’ respite; because in this time they might consult about a defection, whatsoever answer he should make. If he had pacified their wrath by a soft answer at present, as his father counselleth, {Pro 15:1} he had hit it.

“ Regnorum sub rege novo mitissima sors est. ” - Lucan.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

12:5 three days: Rehoboam’s waiting period to consult his advisers is traditional; the third day was one of final decision (see 2 Kgs 20:4-8). Jesus rose from the grave on the third day (Luke 24:41; 1 Cor 15:4).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

he said . . . Depart yet for three days--It was prudent to take the people's demand into calm and deliberate consideration. Whether, had the advice of the sage and experienced counsellors been followed, any good result would have followed, it is impossible to say. It would at least have removed all pretext for the separation. [See on Ch2 10:7.] But he preferred the counsel of his young companions (not in age, for they were all about forty-one, but inexperienced), who recommended prompt and decisive measures to quell the malcontents.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Gill's Exposition

And he said unto them, depart yet for three days, then come again to me,.... Suggesting that he would consider of their proposal and inquire into the merits of it and as things should appear to him he would give them an answer in three days time; which at first sight may seem a point of prudence in him, to take time for deliberation and counsel in this affair, but in his case and circumstance it was very imprudent; for he might easily see there was discontent among the people, and a faction forming against him, and, by taking time to himself, he gave them time to take their measures, and hasten and ripen them for a revolt; for, by giving them such an answer, they might plainly perceive he was not inclined to give them satisfaction; it would have been the most advisable in him to have promised them at once that he would make them easy:

and the people departed; to their quarters, and there remained to the third day.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Give me that time for deliberation and advice.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

5. People departed — Retired from Rehoboam’s presence, not to return home, but to tarry at Shechem three days to await the king’s decision.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days so as to afford time for counsel and deliberation. It has been assumed that both the old and young advisers of Rehoboam had been taken by him, as part of his retinue, to Shechem (Bahr). But it is quite as likely that some of them were summoned from Jerusalem to advise him, and that the three days" delay was in order to give time for their attendance. It is a long day"s journey (12 hours) from Nablus to Jerusalem. Three days, consequently, would just afford sufficient time for the purpose then come again to me, And the people departed. The peaceable departure, like the respect-tiff demand, contradicts the idea of a settled purpose to rebel.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâlôwsh (“three”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word shâlôwsh carries the sense “three.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 1 Kings 12:12, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to walk” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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