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1 Samuel 8:20 Interlinear

“ That we also may be like all the nations may judge and that our king us and go out before us and fight our battles”

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1 Samuel 8 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	וְהָיִ֥ינוּ	H1961		to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
2	גַם	H1571		properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
3	אֲנַ֖חְנוּ	H587		we
4	כְּכָל	H3605		properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
5	הַגּוֹיִ֑ם	H1471	That we also may be like all the nations	a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
6	וּשְׁפָטָ֤נוּ	H8199	may judge	to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
7	מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙	H4428	and that our king	a king
8	וְיָצָ֣א	H3318	us and go out	to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
9	לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ	H6440	before	the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
10	וְנִלְחַ֖ם	H3898	us and fight	to feed on; figuratively, to consume
11	אֶת	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
12	מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃	H4421	our battles	a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)

1 Samuel 8:20 (current) That we also may be like all the nations may judge and that our king us and go out before us and fight our battles