1 Chronicles 12:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֹ֣שְׁקֵי קֶ֗שֶׁת מַיְמִינִ֤ים וּמַשְׂמִאלִים֙ בָּֽאֲבָנִ֔ים וּבַחִצִּ֖ים בַּקָּ֑שֶׁת מֵאֲחֵ֥י שָׁא֖וּל מִבִּנְיָמִֽן׃

Transliteration

nōšəqê qešet, maymînîm and maśmiʾlîm with ʾăḇānîm and with ḥiṣṣîm with the qāšet, from ʾăḥê Šāʾûl from Binyāmin.

Grammar Details

*nōšəqê*: construct participle, masculine plural, Qal - bearers of/ones equipped with
*qešet*: noun, feminine singular - bow
*maymînîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural - using right hand/making right-handed
*u-maśmiʾlîm*: conjunction + Hiphil participle, masculine plural - using left hand/making left-handed
*bā-ʾăḇānîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine plural - with the stones
*u-ḇa-ḥiṣṣîm*: conjunction + preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - and with the arrows
*ba-qāšet*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - with the bow
*mē-ʾăḥê*: preposition + construct noun, masculine plural - from brothers of
*Šāʾûl*: proper noun - Saul
*mi-Binyāmin*: preposition + proper noun - from Benjamin

Word Meanings

*nōšəqê*: bearers/drawers/equipped with
*qešet*: bow/archer's weapon
*maymînîm*: using right hand/skilled with right hand
*maśmiʾlîm*: using left hand/skilled with left hand
*ʾăḥê*: brothers/kinsmen/relatives

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Referenced Verses

Judg 3:15 : 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. And the children of Israel sent tribute by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judg 20:16 : 16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
1 Sam 17:49 : 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Chr 12:29 : 29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

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