King James Version
1 Kings 5:13 in the King James Version says “And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. levy: Heb. tribute of men” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. levy: Heb. tribute of men”
1 Kings 5:13 · KJV
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. measures: Heb. cors
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. levy: Heb. tribute of men
And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“raised”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“a levy”
H4522properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e., a tax in the form of forced labor
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“out of all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“a levy”
H4522properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e., a tax in the form of forced labor
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“men”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
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