1 Samuel 12:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So Samuel called unto Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָ֤א שְׁמוּאֵל֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה קֹלֹ֥ת וּמָטָ֖ר בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא וַיִּירָ֨א כָל־הָעָ֥ם מְאֹ֛ד אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה וְאֶת־שְׁמוּאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wa-yiqrāʾ šəmûʾēl ʾel-YHWH wa-yittēn YHWH qōlōt û-māṭār ba-yôm ha-hûʾ wa-yyîrāʾ kol-hā-ʿām məʾōd ʾet-YHWH wə-ʾet-šəmûʾēl

Grammar Details

*wa-yiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he called
*šəmûʾēl*: proper noun - Samuel
*ʾel*-*YHWH*: preposition + proper noun - to the LORD
*wa-yittēn*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he sent
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
*qōlōt*: noun masculine plural - thunder/voices
*û-māṭār*: conjunction + noun masculine singular - and rain
*ba-yôm*: preposition + definite article + noun masculine singular - on the day
*ha-hûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
*wa-yyîrāʾ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and feared
*kol*-*hā-ʿām*: noun construct + definite article + noun masculine singular - all the people
*məʾōd*: adverb - greatly
*ʾet*-*YHWH*: direct object marker + proper noun - the LORD
*wə-ʾet*-*šəmûʾēl*: conjunction + direct object marker + proper noun - and Samuel

Word Meanings

*wa-yiqrāʾ*: and he called/cried out to/invoked
*wa-yittēn*: and he sent/gave/produced
*qōlōt*: thunder/voices/sounds
*wa-yyîrāʾ*: and feared/were afraid of/stood in awe of
*məʾōd*: greatly/exceedingly/very much

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:31 : 31 And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.
Ezra 10:9 : 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ps 106:12-13 : 12 Then believed they his words; They sang his praise. 13 They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,
Rev 11:5-6 : 5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed. 6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it {G5205} rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.
Exod 9:23-25 : 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

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