King James Version
1 Samuel 30:20 in the King James Version says “And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.”
1 Samuel 30:20 · KJV
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them. saluted: or, asked them how they did
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart. those: Heb. men
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the flocks”
H6629a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
“and the herds”
H1241a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
“which they drave”
H5090to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“other cattle”
H4735something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition
“those”
H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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