1 Kings 13:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.

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חִבְשׁוּ

châbash

H2280

“bind”

Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 33× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 22:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 599

to tie, bind, bind on, bind up, saddle, restrain, bandage, govern - (Qal) - to bind, bind on - to bind up - (Piel) to bind, restrain - (Pual) to be bound up

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 →

11: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חִבְשׁוּ to bind H2280 occurs in 30 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
3 nouns
4 prepositions

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
חִבְשׁוּ Qal · Imperative
וַיַּחְבְּשׁוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּרְכַּ֖ב Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

חִבְשׁוּ to bind H2280 ×2
הַחֲמ֑וֹר donkey H2543 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 13:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 22:21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Judges 5:10 Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
2 Samuel 19:26 He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.
1 Kings 13:27 He spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. They saddled it.

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

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Kings 13:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל בָּנָ֔יו חִבְשׁוּ לִ֖י הַחֲמ֑וֹר וַיַּחְבְּשׁוּ ל֣וֹ הַחֲמ֔וֹר וַיִּרְכַּ֖ב עָלָֽיו

He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 13:13 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον ὁ υἱός αὐτός ἐπισάττω ἐγώ ὁ ὄνος καί ἐπισάττω αὐτός ὁ ὄνος καί ἐπιβαίνω ἐπί αὐτός

And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass: and they saddled him the ass, and he mounted it,

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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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲמַר לִבְנוֹהִי זָרִיזוּ לִי חֲמָרָא וְזָרִיזוּ לֵיהּ חֲמָרָא וּרְכִיב עֲלֵיהּ:

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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 13:13 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 13:13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

Ver. 13. So they saddled him the ass.] Children must cheerfully obey their parents; and not stick at any service within their power.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak,.... To shelter him from the heat, and being faint, hungry, and thirsty; so the ancients of old made use of oaks for a covering, before houses were invented (e); thus Abraham pitched his tent in the plain, or under the oak, of Mamre, Gen 13:18.

and he said unto him, art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? which he might guess at from his habit, and from the description his sons had given of him:

and he said, I am; owned himself to be the person he inquired after.

(e) Suidas in voce

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

The Pulpit Commentary

And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. This prompt and seemingly abrupt command though we cannot be sure that all the conversation is here reported shows his instant resolve to follow. These are the words of one who had made up his mind, coute que coute, to bring the man of God back. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon.

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 11 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châbash (“to bind”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to bind” (châbash) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 22:3, which shares the word «to bind», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to bind” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“to bind” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.