King James Version
1 Kings 8:40 in the King James Version says “That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.”
1 Kings 8:40 · KJV
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“thee all the days”
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
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that they live”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which thou gavest”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“unto our fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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