וַיֹּ֖אמֶר דּ֣וֹד שָׁא֑וּל הַגִּֽידָה נָּ֣א לִ֔י מָֽה אָמַ֥ר לָכֶ֖ם שְׁמוּאֵֽל
Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Samuel 10:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Samuel 10:15 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
Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the uncle of Saul said, “Please declare to me what Samuel said to you.”
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
Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
“Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
“Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”
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King James Version Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Sauls vncle saide, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said vnto you.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the uncle of Saul saith, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, what Samuel said to you?'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the uncle of Saul says, “Please declare to me what Samuel said to you.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Saul's uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the uncle of Saul said, “Please declare to me what Samuel said to you.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said to you.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, What Samuel said to you.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
“Please tell me what he said to you,” Saul's uncle asked.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Then he said, And what did Samuel say to you?
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Saul's uncle said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.'
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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דּ֣וֹד
dôwd
H1730
“beloved of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 61× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 10:4
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
beloved, love, uncle
- loved one, beloved
- uncle
- love (plural abstract)
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר ʼâmar H559 “and · to say” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דּ֣וֹד dôwd H1730 “beloved of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שָׁא֑וּל Shâʼûwl H7586 “Saul” Noun, Proper
- הַגִּֽידָה nâgad H5046 “make known” Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, h
- נָּ֣א nâʼ H4994 “please” Particle, Interjection
- מָֽה mâh H4100 “what” Particle, Interrogative
- אָמַ֥ר ʼâmar H559 “to say” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שְׁמוּאֵֽל Shᵉmûwʼêl H8050 “Samuel” 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 →
- 10
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 prepositions
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- הַגִּֽידָה Hiphil · Imperative
- אָמַ֥ר Qal · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר to say H559 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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 10 Hebrew tokens and 13 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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 17 words vs World English Bible 11. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἶπον ὁ οἰκεῖος πρός σαούλ ἀποἀγγέλλω δή ἐγώ τίς εἶπον σύ σαμουηλ
And his kinsman said to Saul, Tell me, I pray you, What did Samuel say to you?
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 אַח אֲבוּהִי דְשָׁאוּל חַוֵי כְעַן לִי מָה אֲמַר לְכוֹן שְׁמוּאֵל:
(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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dôwd (“beloved”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word dôwd carries the sense “beloved.” How does it shape the verse?
- What does the repetition of “to say” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיֹּ֖אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect 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 10 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- “to say” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 10:15 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.
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.