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And soוְכֵןhe didעָשָׂהfor allלְכָלhis foreignהַנָּכְרִיּוֹתwives,נָשָׁיוwho offered up in smokeמַקְטִירוֹתand sacrificedוּמְזַבְּחוֹתto their gods.לֵאלֹהֵיהֶן
1 Kings 11:8
Study it in the app“And so he did for all his foreign wives, who offered up in smoke and sacrificed to their gods.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 11:8, word by word
- he didעָשָׂהasa
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asa” appears- his foreignנָּכְרִיּוֹתnachriyot
foreign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachriyot” appears- wivesנָשָׁיnashay
wife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashay” appears- who offered up in smokeמַקְטִירוֹתmaktirot
burn incense
To offer fragrant smoke to YHWH or other gods.
Where else “maktirot” appears- and sacrificedמְזַבְּחוֹתmezabchot
sacrifice
To kill an animal as a gift to God or other gods.
Where else “mezabchot” appears- to their godsאלֹהֵיlohe
gods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “lohe” appears
The context
7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, on the mountain that is facing Jerusalem, and for Molech, the detestable thing of the sons of Ammon.
8 · This verse (above)
9And YHWH was angry with Solomon, because his heart had inclined away from YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,