1 Kings 19:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִשְׁאַרְתִּ֥י בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שִׁבְעַ֣ת אֲלָפִ֑ים כָּל־הַבִּרְכַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־כָֽרְעוּ֙ לַבַּ֔עַל וְכָ֨ל־הַפֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־נָשַׁ֖ק לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And wəhišʾartî in Yiśrāʾēl seven ʾălāpîm all the birkaym which not kārəʿû to the Baʿal and all the peh which not nāšaq to him.

Grammar Details

• *wəhišʾartî*: waw consecutive + Hiphil perfect 1st common singular - and I will leave/reserve
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʾălāpîm*: noun masculine plural - thousands
• *birkaym*: noun feminine dual + definite article - the knees
• *kārəʿû*: Qal perfect 3rd common plural - they have bowed
• *Baʿal*: proper noun + definite article - the Baal
• *peh*: noun masculine singular + definite article - the mouth
• *nāšaq*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - it has kissed

Word Meanings

• *wəhišʾartî*: I will leave/I have reserved/I will preserve
• *kol-habbirkaym ʾăšer lōʾ-kārʿû labbaʿal*: all the knees that have not bowed to Baal
• *kol-happeh ʾăšer lōʾ-nāšaq lô*: every mouth that has not kissed him

Referenced Verses

• Hos 13:2 : 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
• Rom 11:4-5 : 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Isa 1:9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Isa 10:20-22 : 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
• Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
• Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Job 31:27 : 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
• Rom 14:10-12 : 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
• Phil 2:10 : 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;