What Does 1 Samuel 6:3 Mean?

“And they said”

to say (used with great latitude)

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“If ye send away”

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“the ark”

a box

“of the God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing

“If ye send away”

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“it not empty”

emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly

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

“but in any wise”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“but in any wise”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“him a trespass offering”

guilt; by implication, a fault; also a sin-offering

at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore

“then ye shall be healed”

properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e., (figuratively) to cure

“and it shall be known”

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

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

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“is not removed”

to turn off (literally or figuratively)

“to you why his hand”

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v

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