1 Kings 19:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֽוּא־הָלַ֤ךְ בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ י֔וֹם וַיָּבֹ֕א וַיֵּ֕שֶׁב תַּ֖חַת רֹ֣תֶם *אחת **אֶחָ֑ד וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל אֶת־נַפְשׁוֹ֙ לָמ֔וּת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ רַ֗ב עַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ קַ֣ח נַפְשִׁ֔י כִּֽי־לֹא־ט֥וֹב אָנֹכִ֖י מֵאֲבֹתָֽי׃

Transliteration

And he hālaḵ in the midbār dereḵ day and wayyāḇōʾ and wayyēšeḇ under rōtem one and wayyišʾal ʾet-napšô to die and wayyōʾmer enough now YHWH take napšî for not good ʾānōḵî than my ʾăḇōtāy.

Grammar Details

*hālaḵ*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he went/walked
*midbār*: noun masculine singular + definite article - the wilderness/desert
*dereḵ*: noun masculine construct - journey/way/road of
*wayyāḇōʾ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he came
*wayyēšeḇ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he sat
*rōtem*: noun masculine singular - broom tree/juniper
*wayyišʾal*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he requested
*napšô*: noun feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his life/soul
*wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*napšî*: noun feminine singular construct + 1st common singular suffix - my life/soul
*ʾānōḵî*: personal pronoun 1st common singular - I
*ʾăḇōtāy*: noun masculine plural construct + 1st common singular suffix - my fathers/ancestors

Word Meanings

*midbār*: wilderness/desert
*dereḵ yôm*: a day's journey
*rōtem*: broom tree/juniper/desert bush
*wayyišʾal ʾet-napšô lāmût*: he asked for his life to die/he requested to die

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Referenced Verses

Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
1 Kgs 13:14 : 14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
Amos 6:2 : 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Gen 21:15-16 : 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Nah 3:8 : 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Matt 6:26 : 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
John 4:6 : 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
Rom 3:9 : 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Phil 1:21-24 : 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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1 Kgs 19:5-10
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5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
6And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
9And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
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3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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