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1 Kings 4:26 Interlinear

“ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen”

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1 Kings 4 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וַיְהִ֣י	H1961		to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
2	לִשְׁלֹמֹ֗ה	H8010	And Solomon	shelomah, david's successor
3	אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	H705	had forty	forty
4	אֶ֖לֶף	H505	thousand	hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
5	אֻרְוֹ֥ת	H723	stalls	a herding-place for an animal
6	סוּסִ֖ים	H5483	of horses	a horse (as leaping)
7	לְמֶרְכָּב֑וֹ	H4817	for his chariots	a chariot; also a seat (in a vehicle)
8	וּשְׁנֵים	H8147	and twelve	two; also (as ordinal) twofold
9	עָשָׂ֥ר	H6240		ten (only in combination), i.e., -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
10	אֶ֖לֶף	H505	thousand	hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
11	פָּֽרָשִֽׁים׃	H6571	horsemen	a steed (as stretched out to a vehicle, not single nor for mounting ); also (by implication) a driver (in a chariot), i.e., (collectively) cavalry

1 Kings 4:26 (current) And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen