1 Samuel 25:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּ֣מָת שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיִּקָּבְצ֤וּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וַיִּסְפְּדוּ־ל֔וֹ וַיִּקְבְּרֻ֥הוּ בְּבֵית֖וֹ בָּרָמָ֑ה וַיָּ֣קָם דָּוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֖רֶד אֶל־מִדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָֽן׃

Transliteration

And wəyāmāt Šəmûʾēl and wayyiqqābəṣû all-Yiśrāʾēl and wayyispədû-to-him and wayyiqbəruhû in-bayit-his in-hārāmāh and wayyāqām Dāwid and wayyēred to-midbār Pāʾrān.

Grammar Details

• *wəyāmāt*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he died
• *Šəmûʾēl*: proper noun - Samuel
• *wayyiqqābəṣû*: waw consecutive + niphal imperfect 3mp - and they gathered themselves
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wayyispədû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3mp - and they mourned
• *wayyiqbəruhû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3mp + 3ms suffix - and they buried him
• *bayit*: noun masculine singular construct - house of
• *hārāmāh*: proper noun with definite article - the Ramah
• *wayyāqām*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he arose
• *Dāwid*: proper noun - David
• *wayyēred*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he went down
• *midbār*: noun masculine singular construct - wilderness of
• *Pāʾrān*: proper noun - Paran

Word Meanings

• *wayyispədû*: mourned/lamented/wailed
• *midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land

Referenced Verses

• Num 20:29 : 29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
• Deut 34:8 : 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
• 1 Sam 28:3 : 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
• 2 Chr 33:20 : 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
• Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• Num 10:12 : 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
• Num 13:3 : 3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 2:34 : 34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
• Gen 14:6 : 6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
• Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
• Isa 14:18 : 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
• Acts 8:2 : 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
• Num 13:26 : 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
• 1 Sam 7:17 : 17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
• Num 12:16 : 16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
• Gen 50:11 : 11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.