What Does 1 Samuel 25:17 Mean?

at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive

“Now therefore know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

“and consider”

to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“what thou wilt do”

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

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“is determined”

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

“for evil”

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“against our master”

sovereign, i.e., controller (human or divine)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

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

“and against all his household”

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

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“for he is such a son”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Belial”

without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness

“that a man cannot speak”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

near, with or among; often in general, to