What Does 1 Samuel 4:16 Mean?

“And he said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“And the 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)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto Eli”

eli, an israelite highpriest

i

“I am he that came”

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

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“out of the army”

an arrangement; concretely, a pile; specifically a military array

i

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“out of the army”

an arrangement; concretely, a pile; specifically a military array

“and I fled”

to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)

“to day”

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

“And he said”

to say (used with great latitude)

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

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“What is there done”

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

“my 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