King James Version
1 Samuel 17:10 in the King James Version says “And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”
1 Samuel 17:10 · KJV
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah , whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
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“I defy”
H2778to pull off, i.e., (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e., defame;
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the armies”
H4634an arrangement; concretely, a pile; specifically a military array
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“this day”
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
“me a man”
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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