What Does 1 Samuel 14:15 Mean?

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

“And there was trembling”

fear, anxiety

“in the host”

an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e

“in the field”

a field (as flat)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“and among all the people”

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

“the garrison”

a fixed spot; figuratively, an office, a military post

“and the spoilers”

to decay, i.e., (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

“they also trembled”

to shudder with terror; hence, to fear; also to hasten (with anxiety)

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

they (only used when emphatic)

“quaked”

to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)

“and the earth”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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

“And there was trembling”

fear, anxiety

“so it was a very great”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of