What Does 1 Samuel 2:35 Mean?

“And I will raise me up”

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

“priest”

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

“a faithful”

properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen

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

“according to that which is in mine heart”

the heart (as the most interior organ)

“and in my mind”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

“that shall do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“and I will build”

to build (literally and figuratively)

“house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“a faithful”

properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen

“and he shall walk”

to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

“mine anointed”

anointed; usually a consecrated person (as a king, priest, or saint); specifically, the messiah

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

“for ever”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso