When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
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When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
And the messengers came, and behold, the teraphim on the bed, and the weaving of goats at its head.
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When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair on its head.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' `hair' at the head thereof.
And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, an image was in the bed, with a pillow of goates heare vnder the head of it.
And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon the bed, and a goat's skin at its head.
And the messengers come in, and lo, the teraphim `are' on the bed, and the mattress of goats' `hair', `for' his pillows.
And the messengers come in, and behold, the teraphim [are] on the bed, and the mattress of goats’ [hair for] his pillows.
When the messengers came in, behold, the household idol was in the bed along with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.
And the messengers came, and behold, the teraphim on the bed, and the weaving of goats at its head.
And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' [hair] at its head.
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
And when the messengers had come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster.
But when the messengers went into the bedroom, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair wig on its head.
And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head
And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּכְבִ֥יר net H3523 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּכְבִ֥יר net H3523 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
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.
וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֶל הַמִּטָּ֑ה וּכְבִ֥יר הָעִזִּ֖ים מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἔρχομαι ὁ ἄγγελος καί ἰδού ὁ κενοτάφιον ἐπί ὁ κλίνη καί ἧπαρ ὁ αἴξ πρός κεφαλή αὐτός
And the messengers come, and, behold, the images were on the bed, and the goat's liver at his head.
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 →
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וַאֲתוֹ אִזְגַדַיָא וְהָא צַלְמָנַיָא עַל עַרְסָא וְנוֹדָא דְעִזָא אִסָדוֹהִי:
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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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kᵉbîyr (“net”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 19:16 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.
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.
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Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.