What Does 1 Kings 8:33 Mean?

“be smitten down”

to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)

“When thy people”

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

“Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“the enemy”

hating; an adversary

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

“because they have sinned”

properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn

“against thee and shall turn again”

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

near, with or among; often in general, to

“to thee and confess”

physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the ha

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

“thy ~”

an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character

“and pray”

to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray

“and make supplication”

properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e., move to favor by petition)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto thee in this house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that