What Does 1 Chronicles 12:17 Mean?

“went out”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

“And David”

david, the youngest son of jesse

“to meet”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“them and answered”

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,

“and said”

to say (used with great latitude)

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“peaceably”

safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace

“unto them If ye be come”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto me to help”

to surround, i.e., protect or aid

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“me mine heart”

the heart (as the most interior organ)

“shall be knit”

properly, a unit, i.e., (adverb) unitedly

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“unto you but if ye be come to betray”

to hurl; specifically, to shoot; figuratively, to delude or betray (as if causing to fall)

“me to mine enemies”

a pebble (as in h6864)

“seeing there is no”

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“wrong”

violence; by implication, wrong; by metonymy unjust gain

“in mine hands”

the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-

“look”

to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)

“the God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

“of our fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“thereon and rebuke”

to be right (i.e., correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict