King James Version
1 Kings 18:15 in the King James Version says “And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.”
1 Kings 18:15 · KJV
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And Elijah”
H452elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other israelites
“liveth”
H2416alive; 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”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“of hosts”
H6635a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (speci
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“whom I stand”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“myself unto him to day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“I will surely shew”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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