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1 Samuel 29:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Samuel 29:7 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 29:7 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-samuel/29/7.

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Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, return and go in peace, so you do not do evil in the eyes of the lords of the Philistines.”

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
    Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Wherefore nowe returne, and go in peace, that thou displease not the princes of the Philistims.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and now, turn back, and go in peace, and thou dost do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and now, return, and go in peace, and you do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So now return and go in peace, so that you do not displease the princes of the Philistines.”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And now, return and go in peace, so you do not do evil in the eyes of the lords of the Philistines.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Therefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    So go back home in peace, and that way you won't do anything to upset the Philistine leaders.”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.'

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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10
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10
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is סַרְנֵ֥י lord H5633 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

סַרְנֵ֥י lord H5633 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 adverb
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • שׁ֖וּב Qal · Imperative
  • וְלֵ֣ךְ Qal · Imperative
  • תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 18 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 29:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Numbers 22:34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 1 Samuel 29:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעַתָּ֥ה שׁ֖וּב וְלֵ֣ךְ בְּשָׁל֑וֹם וְלֹֽא תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה רָ֔ע בְּעֵינֵ֖י סַרְנֵ֥י פְלִשְׁתִּֽים

Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Samuel 29:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί νῦν ἀναστρέφω καί πορεύομαι εἰς εἰρήνη καί οὐ μή ποιέω κακία ἐν ὀφθαλμός ὁ σατράπης ὁ ἀλλόφυλος

Now then return and go in peace, thus you shall not do evil in the sight of the lords of the Philistines.

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)
    וּכְעַן תּוּב וֶאֱזֵיל בִּשְׁלָם וְלָא תַעְבֵיד בִּישׁ בְעֵינֵי טוּרְנֵי פְלִשְׁתָּאֵי:

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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 29:7 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

1Sa 29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

Ver. 7. Wherefore now return, and go in peace.] Happy for David to be thus opportunely cashiered, when he was, as it were, inter saccum et saxum, in a great doubt what to do, and how to come off with comfort. They that trust in God shall never be confounded. If David had not been thus dismissed, what would have become of poor Ziklag, much about this time sacked by the Amalekites?

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

Wherefore now return,.... To Ziklag:

and go in peace; not only in a peaceable manner, easy and satisfied, as David was at his very heart to hear this, but all prosperity and happiness attend thee; the Jews (n) distinguish between wishing persons to go in peace, and to go to peace; the former they observe has not issued happily, when the other has, and they instance in the wish of Jethro to Moses, and of David to Absalom:

that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines: and what would be the consequence of that he could not say, but suggests it would be most for his peace and safety to depart.

(n) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 64. 1. Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 421. 2.

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

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 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çeren (“lord”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word çeren carries the sense “lord.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Joshua 13:3 shares the word «lord» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. 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?
  4. The verb «שׁ֖וּב» is Qal Imperative. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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