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1 Kings 14:23 Interlinear

“For they also built them high places and images and groves hill on every high tree and under every green”

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1 Kings 14 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וַיִּבְנ֨וּ	H1129	For they also built	to build (literally and figuratively)
2	גַם	H1571		properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
3	הֵ֧מָּה	H1992		they (only used when emphatic)
4	לָהֶ֛ם	H1992		they (only used when emphatic)
5	בָּמ֥וֹת	H1116	them high places	an elevation
6	וּמַצֵּב֖וֹת	H4676	and images	something stationed, i.e., a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
7	וַֽאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים	H842	and groves	asherah (or astarte) a phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
8	עַ֚ל	H5921		above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
9	כָּל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
10	גִּבְעָ֣ה	H1389	hill	a hillock
11	גְבֹהָ֔ה	H1364	on every high	elevated (or elated), powerful, arrogant
12	וְתַ֖חַת	H8478		the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
13	כָּל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
14	עֵ֥ץ	H6086	tree	a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
15	רַֽעֲנָֽן׃	H7488	and under every green	verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous

1 Kings 14:23 (current)For they also built them high places and images and groves hill on every high tree and under every green