What Does 1 Kings 21:27 Mean?

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

“heard”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

“And it came to pass when Ahab”

achab, the name of a king of israel and of a prophet at babylon

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

“those words”

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

these or those

“that he rent”

to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them)

“his clothes”

a covering, i.e., clothing

“and put”

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

“in sackcloth”

properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e., coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grai

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

“upon his flesh”

flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man

“and fasted”

to cover over (the mouth), i.e., to fast

“and lay”

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

“in sackcloth”

properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e., coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grai

“and went”

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

“softly”

(as an adverb) gently