If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
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If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
If thus he says, ‘Good,’ peace to your servant. But if burning, it burns to him, know that harm has completed from with him.
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If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
And if he say thus, It is well, thy seruant shall haue peace: but if he be angrie, be sure that wickednesse is concluded of him.
If he shall say, It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.
If thus he say: Good; peace `is' for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him -- know that the evil hath been determined by him;
If thus he says: Good; [there is] peace for your servant; and if it is very displeasing to him—know that the evil has been determined by him;
If he says, 'It is well,' your servant will have peace. But if he is very angry, then know that he has decided on evil.
If thus he says, ‘Good,’ peace to your servant. But if burning, it burns to him, know that harm has completed from with him.
If he say thus, It is well, -- thy servant shall have peace; but if he be very wroth, be sure that evil is determined by him.
If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
If he shall say thus, It is well; thy servant will have peace: but if he shall be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
If he says, ‘That's fine,’ then there's no problem for me, your servant, but if he gets mad, you'll know he intends to do me harm.
If he says, It is well, your servant will be at peace: but if he is angry, then it will be clear to you that he has an evil purpose in mind against me.
If he say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 20 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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אִם כֹּ֥ה יֹאמַ֛ר ט֖וֹב שָׁל֣וֹם לְעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְאִם חָרֹ֤ה יֶֽחֱרֶה֙ ל֔וֹ דַּ֕ע כִּֽי כָלְתָ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מֵעִמּֽוֹ
If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν ὅδε εἶπον ἀγαθῶς εἰρήνη ὁ δοῦλος σύ καί ἐάν σκληρῶς ἀποκρίνω σύ γιγνώσκω ὅτι συντελέω ὁ κακία παρά αὐτός
If he shall say thus, Well, — all is safe for your servant: but if he shall answer harshly to you, know that evil is determined by 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.
אִם כְּדֵין יֵימַר טָב שְׁלָם לְעַבְדָךְ וְאִם מִתְקֵיף יִתְקֵיף לֵיהּ דַע אֲרֵי גְמִירָא בִישְׁתָא מִנֵיהּ:
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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 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chârâh (“to be angry”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 20:7 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.
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.
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.