What Does 1 Samuel 17:40 Mean?

“And he took”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

“his staff”

a shoot, i.e., stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)

“in his hand”

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v

“and chose”

properly, to try, i.e., (by implication) select

“him five”

five

“smooth”

smooth

“stones”

a stone

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“out of the brook”

a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)

“and put”

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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

“bag”

something prepared, i.e., any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)

“them in a shepherd's”

to tend a flock; i.e., pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frie

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

“which he had even in a scrip”

a travelling pouch (as if for gleanings)

“and his sling”

a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself

“in his hand”

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v

“and he drew near”

to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; religious to worship; causati

near, with or among; often in general, to

“to the Philistine”

a pelishtite or inhabitant of pelesheth