What Does 1 Kings 1:29 Mean?

“sware”

to seven oneself, i.e., swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

“And the king”

a king

“and said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“liveth”

alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin

“As the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“that hath redeemed”

to sever, i.e., ransom; generally to release, preserve

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“my soul”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“out of all distress”

transitively, a female rival