King James Version
1 Kings 3:27 in the King James Version says “Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.”
1 Kings 3:27 · KJV
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. yearned: Heb. were hot
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment. in him: Heb. in the midst of him
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“answered”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“child”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“her the living”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“it she is the mother”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
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