King James Version
1 Samuel 18:7 in the King James Version says “And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
1 Samuel 18:7 · KJV
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
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. Philistine: or, Philistines instruments: Heb. three stringed instruments
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? displeased him: Heb. was evil in his eyes
And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“answered”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
“one another as they played”
H7832to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play
“his thousands”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“his ten thousands”
H7233abundance (in number), i.e., (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite)
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