What Does 1 Samuel 17:8 Mean?

“And he stood”

to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)

“and cried”

to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto the armies”

an arrangement; concretely, a pile; specifically a military array

“of Israel”

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

“and said”

to say (used with great latitude)

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“unto them Why are ye come out”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

“in array”

to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)

“to set your battle”

a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

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“am not I a Philistine”

a pelishtite or inhabitant of pelesheth

thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you

“and ye servants”

a servant

“to Saul”

shaul, the name of an edomite and two israelites

“choose”

to select; to feed; to render clear

“you a man”

a 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)

“for you and let him come down”

to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau

near, with or among; often in general, to