King James Version
1 Kings 11:30 in the King James Version says “And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:”
1 Kings 11:30 · KJV
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious , he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. was industrious: Heb. did work charge: Heb. burden
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
KJV Study — Public Domain
“caught”
H8610to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“that was on him and rent”
H7167to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)
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