1 Samuel 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ עֵלִ֔י עַד־מָתַ֖י תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִ֑ין הָסִ֥ירִי אֶת־יֵינֵ֖ךְ מֵעָלָֽיִךְ׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer unto-her ʿēlî until-when tištakkārîn hāsîrî ʾet-yênēk from-upon-you.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: conjunction waw + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *ʾēlêhā*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - unto her
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *mātay*: interrogative adverb - when
• *tištakkārîn*: hitpael imperfect 2nd feminine singular - you will be drunk
• *hāsîrî*: hiphil imperative feminine singular - remove/put away
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *yênēk*: masculine singular noun with 2nd feminine singular suffix - your wine
• *mēʿālāyik*: preposition min + preposition al + 2nd feminine singular suffix - from upon you

Word Meanings

• *ʿad-mātay tištakkārîn*: how long will you be drunk/until when will you remain intoxicated
• *hāsîrî ʾet-yênēk mēʿālāyik*: put away your wine from yourself/remove your wine from you/sober up

Referenced Verses

• Josh 22:12-20 : 12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war. 13 And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, 14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel. 15 And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them, 16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord? 17 Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord, 18 That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel. 19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God. 20 Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.
• Job 8:2 : 2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
• Job 11:14 : 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
• Job 22:23 : 23 If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
• Ps 62:3 : 3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?
• Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
• Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
• Matt 7:1-3 : 1 Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. 2 For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you. 3 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?
• Eph 4:25 : 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
• Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;