1 Samuel 18:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

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וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ

nâgad

H5046

“and · to make known”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 371× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 3:11

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1289

to be conspicuous, tell, make known - (Hiphil) to tell, declare - to tell, announce, report - to declare, make known, expound - to inform of - to publish, declare, proclaim - to avow, acknowledge, confess - messenger (participle) - (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported

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
4 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
לֵאמֹ֑ר Qal · Infinitive Construct
דִּבֶּ֥ר Piel · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 15 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Samuel 18:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ עַבְדֵ֥י שָׁא֛וּל ל֖וֹ לֵאמֹ֑ר כַּדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה דִּבֶּ֥ר דָּוִֽד

The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Samuel 18:24 Septuagint · lemma form

And the servants of Saul reported to him according to these words, which David spoke.

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)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְחַוִיאוּ עַבְדֵי שָׁאוּל לֵיהּ לְמֵימַר כְּפִתְגָמַיָא הָאִלֵין מַלֵיל דָוִד:

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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 18:24 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

1Sa 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

Ver. 24. On this manner.] Heb., According to these words; they truly related the substance of David’s answer to the motion; for he was generally well beloved, he was an Omnes omnia bona dicere.

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

And when his servants told David these words,.... That the king desired no other dowry than an hundred foreskins of the Philistines:

it pleased David well to be the king's son in law; on such conditions; partly because of the honour of it, and partly because of his love to Michal; and chiefly because it would give him an opportunity of destroying the enemies of God, and of his people, as well as such a match would lead the way, and be a step in Providence to ascend the throne designed for him in due time:

and the days were not expired; neither for the bringing in of the foreskins, nor for the consummation of the marriage.

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

Vers. 24, 25. David"s answer exactly fell in with Saul"s purposes, and he forthwith asked as a dowry proof of David having slain a hundred Philistines. As this slaughter would have to be effected not in regular warfare, but in a sort of private raid, there would be every likelihood of David being overpowered by a rapid gathering of the Philistines and slain in attempting it. It marks the unscrupulous character of ancient warfare that the lives of enemies should thus be taken, without any public provocation, for private purposes. (comp. Jud_1:14:19)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 nâgad (“to make known”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word nâgad carries the sense “to make known.” How does it shape the verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ» is a Hiphil 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

These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.