1 Samuel 20:8
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
חֵסֵד
chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
בְּרִית
bᵉrîyth
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֶפֶס
ʼepheç
cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or fo...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
δεῖ
deî
also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Key Terms in This Verse
חֵסֵד chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
Study H2617 →אֶפֶס ʼepheç
cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot
Study H657 →δεῖ deî
also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding)
Study G1163 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →בְּרִית bᵉrîyth
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
Study H1285 →Cross References
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: n...
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing ...
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and tru...
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto ...
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