but you have done evilוַתָּרַע לַעֲשׂוֹתmore than allמִכֹּלwhoאֲשֶׁרwereהָיוּbefore you,לְפָנֶיךָand you have goneוַתֵּלֶךְand madeוַתַּעֲשֶׂהfor yourselfלְּךָotherאֲחֵרִיםgodsאֱלֹהִיםand cast imagesוּמַסֵּכוֹתto provoke me to anger,לְהַכְעִיסֵנִיand meוְאֹתִיyou have thrownהִשְׁלַכְתָּbehindאַחֲרֵיyour back;גַוֶּךָ
1 Kings 14:9
Study it in the app“but you have done evil more than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke me to anger, and me you have thrown behind your back;”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 14:9, word by word
- but you have done evilתָּרַעtara
do evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “tara” appears- but you have done evilעֲשׂוֹתasot
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appears- wereהָיוּhayu
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayu” appears- before youפָנֶיfane
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fane” appears- and you have goneתֵּלֶךְtelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “telech” appears- otherאֲחֵרִיםacherim
other
Other, another; next.
Where else “acherim” appears- godsאֱלֹהִיםelohim
gods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “elohim” appears- and cast imagesמַסֵּכוֹתmasechot
cast image
An idol made of melted metal.
Where else “masechot” appears- to provoke me to angerהַכְעִיסֵhachise
provoke
To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.
Where else “hachise” appears- you have thrownהִשְׁלַכְתָּhishlachta
throw
To throw something with force, far off or down.
Where else “hishlachta” appears- your backגַוֶּgave
back
Back, the rear part of the body. "To cast behind one's back" is to set something aside and pay no attention to it.
Where else “gave” appears
The context
8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes,
9 · This verse (above)
10therefore, look, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel; and I will sweep away after the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung, until it is gone.