וְעַתָּ֖ה אַתָּ֣ה אֹמֵ֑ר לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר לַאדֹנֶ֖יךָ הִנֵּ֥ה אֵלִיָּֽהוּ
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 18:11
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 18:11 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
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
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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
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
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King James Version Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah.”’
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that Elijah is here!’
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And now you say, ‘Go tell your master that Elijah is here!’
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King James Version Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah `is here'.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lorde, Beholde, Eliiah is here.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And now thou sayest to me: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and now, thou art saying, Go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and now, you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Yet now you say, 'Go, tell your master that Elijah is here.'
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah.”’
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you're telling me to go to my master and announce, ‘Elijah is here!’
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here.
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אֵלִיָּֽהוּ
ʼÊlîyâh
H452
“Elijah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Kings 17:1
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Elijah or Eliah = "my God is Jehovah" or " Yah(u) is God"
- the great prophet of the reign of Ahab
- Benjamite son of Jeroham
- a son of Elam with foreign wife during exile
- a son of Harim, and priest, with foreign wife during exile
- וְעַתָּ֖ה ʻattâh H6258 “and · now” Conjunction + Adverb
- אַתָּ֣ה ʼattâh H859 “you” Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֹמֵ֑ר ʼâmar H559 “saying” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לֵ֛ךְ yâlak H3212 “walk” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֱמֹ֥ר ʼâmar H559 “say” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לַאדֹנֶ֖יךָ ʼâdôwn H113 “to/for · lords · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הִנֵּ֥ה hinnêh H2009 “behold” Particle, Demonstrative
- אֵלִיָּֽהוּ ʼÊlîyâh H452 “Elijah” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 adverb
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- אֹמֵ֑ר Qal · Participle Active
- לֵ֛ךְ Qal · Imperative
- אֱמֹ֥ר Qal · Imperative
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֹמֵ֑ר to say H559 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 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
2Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 18:11 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 18:8 He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
- 1 Kings 18:14 Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
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.
καί νῦν σύ λέγω πορεύομαι ἀναἀγγέλλω ὁ κύριος σύ ἰδού ηλιου
And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliu is here.
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)
וּכְעַן אַתְּ אֲמַר אֱזֵיל אֲמַר לְרִבּוֹנָךְ הָא אֵלִיָהוּ:
(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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÊlîyâh (“Elijah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼÊlîyâh carries the sense “Elijah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Kings 18:8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to say” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «אֹמֵ֑ר» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 18:11 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.
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.