1 Samuel 14:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

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יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן

Yᵉhôwnâthân

H3083

“Jonathan”

Noun, Proper

Appears 79× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 14:6

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3068 and H5414

TWOT: None

Jonathan or Jehonathan = "Jehovah has given" - a son of king Saul and a friend of David - a son of the high priest Abiathar and the last descendant of Eli of whom we hear - a nephew of David who like David slew a giant of Gath - an uncle of David - one of David's mighty warriors - one of David's treasurers - a scribe in the time of Jeremiah - a Levite and father of Zechariah, a priest who blew the trumpet at the dedication of the wall - a son or descendant of Gershom, the son of Moses, and a priest to the tribe of Dan - a son of Kareah and a brother of Johanan; a Judaite captain after the fall of Jerusalem - another Judaite father of Peleth - father of Ebed in the time of Ezra - son of Asahel in the time of Ezra - a priest of the family of Melicu in the time of Nehemiah - son of Joiada and his successor to the high priesthood in the time of Nehemiah

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

3 verbs
2 nouns
1 pronoun
2 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
עֹבְרִ֖ים Qal · Participle Active
וְנִגְלִ֖ינוּ Niphal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֶל to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Samuel 14:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Judges 7:9–14 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.

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.

Hebrew 1 Samuel 14:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן הִנֵּ֛ה אֲנַ֥חְנוּ עֹבְרִ֖ים אֶל הָאֲנָשִׁ֑ים וְנִגְלִ֖ינוּ אֲלֵיהֶֽם

Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Samuel 14:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον ιωναθαν ἰδού ἐγώ διαβαίνω πρός ὁ ἀνήρ καί κατακυλίω πρός αὐτός

And Jonathan said, Behold, we will go over to the men, and will come down suddenly upon them.

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲמַר יְהוֹנָתָן הָא אֲנַחְנָא עָבְרִין לְוַת גַבְרַיָא וְנִתְגְלֵי לְהוֹן:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Samuel 14:8 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

1Sa 14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto [these] men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

Ver. 8. Behold, we will pass over.] Though on all fours, and with much ado. Difficulty doth but whet on heroic spirits. Alexander never held anything to be unfeasible.

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

Then said Jonathan, behold, we will pass over to these men,.... Over the precipices to them, as steep and as cragged as they are:

and we will discover ourselves to them; present themselves to them at daylight, and let them know plainly who they were, that they were Hebrews.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

will not cross over to them

"will not go over to the other side of the valley where the Philistines are"

has given them into our hand

Here "hand" refers to the power to defeat them. AT: "will enable us to defeat them" (See: Metonymy)

This will be the sign to us

"This will confirm that the Lord will be with us"

translationWords

Jonathan

hand

sign

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉhôwnâthân (“Jonathan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Jonathan” (Yᵉhôwnâthân) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Judges 7:9–14, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “to” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙» 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 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“to” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.