King James Version
1 Samuel 21:15 in the King James Version says “Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?”
1 Samuel 21:15 · KJV
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. scrabbled: or, made marks
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me? is mad: or, playeth the mad man
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“in my presence shall this fellow come”
H935to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in my presence shall this fellow come”
H935to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
“into my house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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