1 Kings 18:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֞ה אֲנִ֣י ׀ אֵלֵ֣ךְ מֵאִתָּ֗ךְ וְר֨וּחַ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ יִֽשָּׂאֲךָ֙ עַ֚ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־אֵדָ֔ע וּבָ֨אתִי לְהַגִּ֧יד לְאַחְאָ֛ב וְלֹ֥א יִֽמְצָאֲךָ֖ וַהֲרָגָ֑נִי וְעַבְדְּךָ֛ יָרֵ֥א אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה מִנְּעֻרָֽי

Transliteration

And-hāyāh ʾănî ʾēlēk from-mēʾittāk and-rûaḥ YHWH yiśśāʾăkā to ʿal ʾăšer not-ʾēdāʿ and-bāʾtî ləhaggîd to-ʾaḥʾāb and-not yimṣāʾăkā and-hărāgānî and-ʿabdəkā yārēʾ ʾet-YHWH from-minnəʿurāy

Grammar Details

• *hāyāh*: qal perfect 3ms - it will happen
• *ʾănî*: pronoun 1cs - I
• *ʾēlēk*: qal imperfect 1cs - I will go
• *mēʾittāk*: preposition + preposition + 2ms suffix - from with you
• *rûaḥ*: noun feminine singular construct - spirit of
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *yiśśāʾăkā*: qal imperfect 3ms + 2ms suffix - will carry you
• *ʿal*: preposition - to/unto
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/where
• *ʾēdāʿ*: qal imperfect 1cs - I know
• *bāʾtî*: qal perfect 1cs - I will have come
• *ləhaggîd*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to tell
• *ʾaḥʾāb*: proper name - Ahab
• *yimṣāʾăkā*: qal imperfect 3ms + 2ms suffix - he will find you
• *hărāgānî*: qal perfect 3ms + 1cs suffix - he will kill me
• *ʿabdəkā*: noun masculine singular + 2ms suffix - your servant
• *yārēʾ*: adjective masculine singular - fearing
• *minnəʿurāy*: preposition + noun masculine plural + 1cs suffix - from my youth

Word Meanings

• *hāyāh*: it will happen/it will come to pass
• *ʾēlēk*: I will go/I will depart
• *rûaḥ*: spirit/wind/breath
• *yiśśāʾăkā*: will carry you away/will lift you up/will take you
• *ʾēdāʿ*: I know/I understand
• *ləhaggîd*: to tell/to report/to announce
• *yimṣāʾăkā*: will find you/will discover you
• *hărāgānî*: he will kill me/he will put me to death
• *yārēʾ*: fearing/revering/standing in awe of

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 2:16 : 16 They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
• Acts 8:39 : 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
• Ezek 8:3 : 3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
• Ezek 11:24 : 24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
• Ezek 37:1 : 1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
• Ezek 40:1-2 : 1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there. 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
• Dan 2:5-9 : 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don't make known to me the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. 6 But if you show the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it. 7 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. 8 The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me. 9 But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation of it. 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king's matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
• Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
• Matt 4:1 : 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
• 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
• Ps 71:17-18 : 17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, Until I have declared your strength to the next generation, Your might to everyone who is to come.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Eccl 7:18 : 18 It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.
• Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
• Ezek 3:12-14 : 12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place. 13 [I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. 14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.
• 1 Sam 2:18 : 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
• 1 Sam 2:26 : 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
• 1 Sam 3:19-20 : 19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 22:11-19 : 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. 12 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord. 13 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? 15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more. 16 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house. 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18 The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. 19 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
• 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
• Acts 12:19 : 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
• 2 Cor 12:2-3 : 2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. 3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),
• 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.