What Does 1 Kings 12:9 Mean?

“And he said”

to say (used with great latitude)

near, with or among; often in general, to

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you

“unto them What counsel give”

to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve

“ye that we may”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“answer”

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

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

“this people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

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

“who have spoken”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

near, with or among; often in general, to

“And he said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“Make”

to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“the yoke”

a yoke (as imposed on the neck), literally or figuratively

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

“did put”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

“which thy father”

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

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