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1 Samuel 22:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Samuel 22:12 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Samuel 22:12 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-samuel/22/12.

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Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he said, “Behold me, my master.”

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    “Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Saul said, Heare now thou sonne of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He answered: Here I am, my lord.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Saul saith, `Hear, I pray thee, son of Ahitub;' and he saith, `Here `am' I, my lord.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Saul says, “Now hear, son of Ahitub”; and he says, “Here I [am], my lord.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my master.”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” And he said, “Behold me, my master.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “Now you listen, son of Ahitub,” the king shouted. “What is it, my lord?” Ahimelech asked.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Saul said: 'Hear now, thou son of Ahitub.' And he answered: 'Here I am, my lord.'

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9
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8
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲחִיט֑וּב Ahitub H285 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲחִיט֑וּב Ahitub H285 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • שְֽׁמַֽע Qal · Imperative
  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

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

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר to say H559 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Samuel 22:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 22:7 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
  • 1 Samuel 22:13 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
  • 2 Samuel 9:6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said, Mephibosheth. He answered, Behold, your servant!
  • Isaiah 65:1 I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Samuel 22:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֔וּל שְֽׁמַֽע נָ֖א בֶּן אֲחִיט֑וּב וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִנְנִ֥י אֲדֹנִֽי

Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Samuel 22:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον σαούλ ἀκούω δή υἱός αχιτωβ καί εἶπον ἰδού ἐγώ λαλέω κύριος

And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Achitob. And he said, Behold! I am here, speak, my lord.

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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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וַאֲמַר שָׁאוּל שְׁמַע כְּעַן בַּר אֲחִיטוּב וַאֲמַר הָא אֲנָא רִבּוֹנִי:

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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 22:12 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 22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I [am], my lord.

Ver. 12. Here now, thou son of Ahitub.] This is the best title he can now find in his heart to give him whom he meant to condemn to die. And yet this was better language than Stephen Gardiner gave Dr Taylor, martyr, with whom he thus began at his very first appearance before him: Art thou come, thou villain? how darest thou look me in the face for shame? knowest thou not who I am? &c. {a}

{a} Act. and Mon., 1381.

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 Saul said, hear now, thou son of Ahitub,.... The charge exhibited against him; in contempt of him, he does not so much as call him by his name, nor give him the title of his office, as high priest; though he was the second person in the kingdom, and to whose office a few years ago the civil government was annexed:

and he answered, here I am, my lord; giving due honour to Saul, though he received none from him, and appearing with great boldness, as having a clear conscience, and so ready to hear what was to be said unto him.

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

Achitob. He gives him no honourable title, no more than David, (ver. 7, &c.) out of disrespect. (Menochius)

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

Thou son of Ahitub; he shows his contempt and anger, that he would not vouchsafe to name him: See Poole "1Sa 20:27".

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

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

Discussion questions

  1. The word ʼĂchîyṭûwb carries the sense “Ahitub.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 1 Samuel 14:3, which shares the word «Ahitub», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to say” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «וַיֹּ֣אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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