וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו לֵ֥ךְ אִתִּ֖י הַבָּ֑יְתָה וֶאֱכֹ֖ל לָֽחֶם
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 13:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 13:15 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.
English Translation
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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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
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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King James Version Public Domain
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said to him, “Go with me to the house and eat bread.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”
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King James Version Public Domain
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then he said vnto him, Come home with me, and eate bread.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he said to him: Come home with me, to eat bread.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he saith unto him, `Come with me to the house, and eat bread.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he says to him, “Come with me to the house and eat bread.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then the old prophet said to him, “Come home with me and eat food.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he said to him, “Go with me to the house and eat bread.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
“Come home with me and have something to eat,” he told him.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Then he said unto him: 'Come home with me, and eat bread.'
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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לָֽחֶם
lechem
H3899
“bread”
Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 299× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 3:19
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
bread, food, grain
- bread
- bread
- bread-corn
- food (in general)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֵלָ֔יו ʼêl H413 “to · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לֵ֥ךְ yâlak H3212 “walk” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אִתִּ֖י ʼêth H854 “with · me” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- הַבָּ֑יְתָה bayith H1004 “the · house · toward” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
- וֶאֱכֹ֖ל ʼâkal H398 “and · eat” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לָֽחֶם lechem H3899 “bread” Noun, Common, Both, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 2 prepositions
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- לֵ֥ךְ Qal · Imperative
- וֶאֱכֹ֖ל Qal · Imperative
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 9 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.
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.
καί εἶπον αὐτός δεῦρο μετά ἐγώ καί ἐσθίω ἄρτος
And he said to him, Come with me, and eat bread.
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)
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.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וַאֲמַר לֵיהּ אִיתָא עִמִי לְבֵיתָא וֶאֱכוֹל לַחְמָא:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lechem (“bread”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “bread” (lechem) shape what this verse is saying?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 13:15 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
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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
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
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.