1 Chronicles 12:2
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul’s brethren of Benjamin."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָלַץ
châlats
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
קֶשֶׁת
qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
מָשַׁל
mâshal
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
יְמָנִי
yᵉmânîy
right (i.e. at the right hand)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
בָּרַח
bârach
to bolt, i.e. figuratively, to flee suddenly
חֵץ
chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
קֶשֶׁת
qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
שָׁאוּל
Shâʼûwl
Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites
אָח
ʼâch
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))
בִּנְיָמִין
Binyâmîyn
Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
Key Terms in This Verse
קֶשֶׁת qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
Study H7198 →חָלַץ châlats
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
Study H2502 →מָשַׁל mâshal
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
Study H4911 →חֵץ chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
Study H2671 →קֶשֶׁת qesheth
a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
Study H7198 →בִּנְיָמִין Binyâmîyn
Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
Study H1144 →Cross References
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Egl...
And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
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