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He said,וַיֹּאמֶר“I cannotלֹא אוּכַלreturnלָשׁוּבwith youאִתָּךְorוְgo inלָבוֹאwith you;אִתָּךְand I will notוְלֹאeatאֹכַלbreadלֶחֶםand I will notוְלֹאdrinkאֶשְׁתֶּהwaterמַיִםwith youאִתְּךָin thisבַּ הַזֶּהplace;מָּקוֹם
1 Kings 13:16
Study it in the app“He said, “I cannot return with you or go in with you; and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water with you in this place;”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 13:16, word by word
- He saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “I cannotאוּכַלuchal
be able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “uchal” appears- returnשׁוּבshuv
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “shuv” appears- go inבוֹאvo
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “vo” appears- eatאֹכַלochal
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “ochal” appears- breadלֶחֶםlechem
food
Everything eaten at the table, even if it is not bread.
Where else “lechem” appears- drinkאֶשְׁתֶּהeshte
drink
Drink.
Where else “eshte” appears- waterמַיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- placeמָּקוֹםmakom
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appears
The context
15He said to him, “Come with me to the house and eat bread.”
16 · This verse (above)
17for a word came to me by the word of YHWH: ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water there; you shall not return by going by the way that you went by it.’”