1 Kings 11:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אָהַ֞ב נָשִׁ֧ים נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת רַבּ֖וֹת וְאֶת־בַּת־פַּרְעֹ֑ה מוֹאֲבִיּ֤וֹת עַמֳּנִיּוֹת֙ אֲדֹ֣מִיֹּ֔ת צֵדְנִיֹּ֖ת חִתִּיֹּֽת׃

Transliteration

And the melekh Shelomoh ʾāhaḇ nāshīm nokhrīyōt rabbōt and ʾet-daughter-of-Parʿōh; Mōʾăḇīyōt, ʿAmmŏnīyōt, ʾĂdōmīyōt, Tsēdonīyōt, Ḥittīyōt.

Grammar Details

• *melekh*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - king
• *Shelomoh*: proper noun, masculine - Solomon
• *ʾāhaḇ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - loved
• *nāshīm*: noun, feminine, plural, absolute - women/wives
• *nokhrīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - foreign/strange
• *rabbōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - many/numerous
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *Parʿōh*: proper noun, masculine - Pharaoh
• *Mōʾăḇīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - Moabite (women)
• *ʿAmmŏnīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - Ammonite (women)
• *ʾĂdōmīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - Edomite (women)
• *Tsēdonīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - Sidonian (women)
• *Ḥittīyōt*: adjective, feminine, plural - Hittite (women)

Word Meanings

• *ʾāhaḇ*: loved/had affection for
• *nāshīm*: women/wives
• *nokhrīyōt*: foreign/strange/alien

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now king{H4428} Solomon{H8010} loved{H157} many{H7227} foreign{H5237} women,{H802} together with the daughter{H1323} of Pharaoh,{H6547} women of the Moabites,{H4125} Ammonites,{H5984} Edomites,{H130} Sidonians,{H6722} and Hittites;{H2850}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But king{H4428} Solomon{H8010} loved{H157}{(H8804)} many{H7227} strange{H5237} women{H802}, together with the daughter{H1323} of Pharaoh{H6547}, women of the Moabites{H4125}, Ammonites{H5984}, Edomites{H130}, Zidonians{H6722}, and Hittites{H2850};

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But kynge Salomon loued many outlandish wemen, Pharaos doughter, and wemen of Moab, of Ammo, of Edom, of Sidon, and of Heth,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Bvt King Salomon loued many outlandish women: both the daughter of Pharaoh, and the women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon and Heth,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But king Solomo loued many outlandishe women, & the daughter of Pharao, and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, & Hethites:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, `and' of the Hittites,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
• Neh 13:23-27 : 23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; 24 and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people. 25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?
• Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;
• Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house: 9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love. 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
• Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Prov 7:5 : 5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
• Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
• Prov 23:33 : 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
• 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 And Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall around Jerusalem.
• 1 Kgs 11:8 : 8 And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
• Lev 18:18 : 18 Nor shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.
• Gen 6:2-5 : 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.