1 Samuel 2:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֖ל בָּנָ֑י כִּ֠י לֽוֹא־טוֹבָ֤ה הַשְּׁמֻעָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י שֹׁמֵ֔עַ מַעֲבִרִ֖ים עַם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

No, banay for not-tova hashmua which anokhi shomea maavirim am-YHWH.

Grammar Details

*banay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my sons
*tova*: adjective, feminine singular - good
*hashmua*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the report/rumor
*anokhi*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*shomea*: Qal participle, masculine singular - hearing/am hearing
*maavirim*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural - causing to pass over/spreading
*am*: noun, masculine singular construct - people of
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD

Word Meanings

*tova*: good/favorable
*hashmua*: the report/the rumor/the news
*shomea*: hear/am hearing
*maavirim*: causing to transgress/leading astray/spreading among

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
1 Sam 2:17 : 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Kgs 13:18-21 : 18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. 20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
Mal 2:8 : 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matt 18:7 : 7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Acts 6:3 : 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
2 Cor 6:8 : 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
Rev 2:20 : 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

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