The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And one woman said, “Please, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I gave birth with her in the house.
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The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And the one woman said, Oh my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house.
And one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber.
and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;
and the first woman says, “O my lord, this woman and I are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;
One woman said, “Oh, my master, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child with her in the house.
And one woman said, “Please, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I gave birth with her in the house.
And the first woman said, Ah, my lord! I and this woman abode in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
One of the women spoke up, saying, “If it please Your Majesty: I share a house with this woman. I had a baby while she was living in the house.
And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
And the one woman said: 'Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בִּ֣י please H994 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בִּ֣י please H994 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 23 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.
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.
וַתֹּ֜אמֶר הָאִשָּׁ֤ה הָֽאַחַת֙ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י אֲנִי֙ וְהָאִשָּׁ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את יֹשְׁבֹ֖ת בְּבַ֣יִת אֶחָ֑ד וָאֵלֵ֥ד עִמָּ֖הּ בַּבָּֽיִת
The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον ὁ γυνή ὁ εἷς ἐν ἐγώ κύριος ἐγώ καί ὁ γυνή οὗτος οἰκέω ἐν οἶκος εἷς καί τίκτω ἐν ὁ οἶκος
And the one woman said, Hear me, my lord; I and this woman lived in one house, and we were delivered in the house.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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 →
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.
וַאֲמַרַת אִתְּתָא חֲדָא בְּבָעוּ רִבּוֹנִי אֲנָא וְאִתְּתָא הֲדָא יַתְבַן בְּבֵיתָא חֲדָא וִילֵידַת עִמָהּ בְּבֵיתָא:
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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.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bîy (“please”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 3:17 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
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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — 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.