1 Samuel
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1 Samuel 1:1
וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֜ד מִן הָרָמָתַ֛יִם צוֹפִ֖ים מֵהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם וּשְׁמ֡וֹ אֶ֠לְקָנָה בֶּן יְרֹחָ֧ם בֶּן אֱלִיה֛וּא בֶּן תֹּ֥חוּ בֶן צ֖וּף אֶפְרָתִֽי
and to be · man · one · from · the Ramathaim-zophim · Ramathaim-zophim · from mountain of · Ephraim · and name his · Elkanah · son of · Jeroham · son of · Elihu · son of · Tohu · son of · Zuph · Ephrathite
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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of 1 Samuel — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 423
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 318
- שָׁאוּל H7586 Shâʼûwl Saul 297
- דָּוִד H1732 Dâvid David 290
- אִישׁ H376 ʼîysh man 212
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 187
- בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 172
- הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 167
- פְּלִשְׁתִּי H6430 Pᵉlishtîy Philistine 152
- יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 Yisrâʼêl Israel 151
- יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 150
- בֵּן H1121 bên son 141
About this book
- 31 Chapters
- 810 Verses
- 13,313 Hebrew words
- 1,236 Distinct lemmas
1 Samuel is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 31 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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