1 Kings 18:4
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אִיזֶבֶל
ʼÎyzebel
Izebel, the wife of king Ahab
נָבִיא
nâbîyʼ
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
עֹבַדְיָה
ʻÔbadyâh
Obadjah, the name of thirteen Israelites
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
מֵאָה
mêʼâh
a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
נָבִיא
nâbîyʼ
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
רָעָה
râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frien...
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Key Terms in This Verse
רָעָה râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Study H7462 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →Cross References
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great prov...
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
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