He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
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He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
And he did valor, and he struck Amalek. And he delivered Israel from the hand of its plunderers.
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He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.
He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of its plunderers.
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that despoiled them.
And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
He gathered also an hoste and smote Amalek, and deliuered Israel out of the handes of them that spoyled them.
And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and delivered Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them.
And he maketh a force, and smiteth Amalek, and delivereth Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.
And he makes a force, and strikes Amalek, and delivers Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.
He acted with great courage and defeated the Amalekites. He rescued Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
And he did valor, and he struck Amalek. And he delivered Israel from the hand of its plunderers.
And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of their spoilers.
He did valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
And he gathered a host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from the hands of them that spoiled them.
He fought bravely, conquering the Amalekites, saving Israel from those who plundered them.
And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.
And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שֹׁסֵֽהוּ to plunder H8154 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שֹׁסֵֽהוּ to plunder H8154 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 16 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּ֣עַשׂ חַ֔יִל וַיַּ֖ךְ אֶת עֲמָלֵ֑ק וַיַּצֵּ֥ל אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִיַּ֥ד שֹׁסֵֽהוּ
He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω δύναμις καί πατάσσω ὁ αμαληκ καί ἐκαἱρέω ὁ ἰσραήλ ἐκ χείρ ὁ καταπατέω αὐτός
And he wrought valiantly, and struck Amalec, and rescued Israel out of the hand of them that trampled on him.
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 →
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.
וּכְנַשׁ מַשִׁרְיָן וּמְחָא יַת דְבֵית עֲמָלֵק וְשֵׁיזֵיב יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל מִיַד בָּזְזֵיהוֹן:
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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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâçâh (“to plunder”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 14:48 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.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.
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).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.