1 Samuel 10:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּרֻ֙צוּ֙ וַיִּקָּחֻ֣הוּ מִשָּׁ֔ם וַיִּתְיַצֵּ֖ב בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעָ֑ם וַיִּגְבַּהּ֙ מִכָּל־הָעָ֔ם מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹ וָמָֽעְלָה׃

Transliteration

way-yāruṣû way-yiqqāḥuhû from-there way-yiṯyaṣṣēḇ in-tôḵ the-ʿām way-yigbah from-all-the-ʿām from-šiḵmô and-upward.

Grammar Details

*way-yāruṣû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural masculine - and they ran
*way-yiqqāḥuhû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural masculine with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and they took him
*way-yiṯyaṣṣēḇ*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd singular masculine hithpael - and he stood
*tôḵ*: noun, masculine singular - midst
*ʿām*: noun, masculine singular - people
*way-yigbah*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd singular masculine qal - and he was taller
*šiḵmô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his shoulder

Word Meanings

*yiṯyaṣṣēḇ*: stationed himself/stood/positioned himself
*yigbah*: was taller/towered/was higher

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 9:2 : 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Jehovah seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.
1 Sam 17:4 : 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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