What Does 1 Samuel 2:13 Mean?

“custom”

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind

“And the priests”

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

“with the people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“was that when any 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)

“offered”

to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)

“sacrifice”

properly, a slaughter, i.e., the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)

“came”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

“servant”

(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latit

“And the priests”

literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)

“was in seething”

properly, to boil up; hence, to be done in cooking; figuratively to ripen

“while the flesh”

flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man

“with a fleshhook”

a fork

“of three”

three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice

“teeth”

a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff

“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