וְעַתָּה֙ אַתָּ֣ה אֹמֵ֔ר לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר לַֽאדֹנֶ֖יךָ הִנֵּ֣ה אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ וַהֲרָגָֽנִי
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 18:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 18:14 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]; and he will kill me.
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
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King James Version Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah,”’ and he will kill me.”
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
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And now you say, ‘Go tell your lord that Elijah is here!’ He will kill me!”
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King James Version Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah `is here'; and he will slay me.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah: is here: and he shall slay me.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here, that he may slay me.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And now thou sayest: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah -- and he hath slain me!'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you are saying, Go, say to my lord, Behold, Elijah—and he has slain me!”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Now you say to me, 'Go and tell your master that Elijah is here,' so that he will kill me.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah,”’ and he will kill me.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah! and he will kill me.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he will slay me.
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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.’ He's going to kill me!”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.'
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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אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ
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
- וְעַתָּה֙ ʻattâh H6258 “and · now” Conjunction + Adverb
- אַתָּ֣ה ʼattâh H859 “you” Pronoun, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֹמֵ֔ר 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
- לַֽאדֹנֶ֖יךָ ʼâdôwn H113 “to/for · lords · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הִנֵּ֣ה hinnêh H2009 “behold” Particle, Demonstrative
- אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ ʼÊlîyâh H452 “Elijah” Noun, Proper
- וַהֲרָגָֽנִי hârag H2026 “and · to kill · me” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 4 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 adverb
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- אֹמֵ֔ר Qal · Participle Active
- לֵ֛ךְ Qal · Imperative
- אֱמֹ֥ר Qal · Imperative
- וַהֲרָגָֽנִי Qal · Sequential Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אֹמֵ֔ר to say H559 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 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
1Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 18:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Matthew 10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
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 ἐγώ πορεύομαι λέγω ὁ κύριος σύ ἰδού ηλιου καί ἀποκτείνω ἐγώ
And now you say to me, Go, say to your master, Behold, Eliu is here: and he shall kill me.
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 אָמַר אֱזֵיל אֱמַר לְרִבּוֹנָךְ הָא אֵלִיָהוּ וְיִקְטְלִינַנִי:
(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
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 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?
- How does Matthew 10:28, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to say” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «אֹמֵ֔ר» is a Qal Participle Active 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 9 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
- “to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 18:14 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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.