King James Version
1 Samuel 18:3 in the King James Version says “Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.”
1 Samuel 18:3 · KJV
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. behaved: or, prospered
KJV Study — Public Domain
“made”
H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e., make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutt
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“him as his own soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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