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And nowוְעַתָּהyouאַתָּהsay,אֹמֵר‘Go,לֵךְsayאֱמֹרto your lord,לַאדֹנֶיךָ“Hereהִנֵּהis Elijah.”’אֵלִיָּהוּ
1 Kings 18:11
Study it in the app“And now you say, ‘Go, say to your lord, “Here is Elijah.”’”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 18:11, word by word
- sayאֹמֵרomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “omer” appears- ‘Goלֵךְlech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appears- to your lordאדֹנֶיdone
lord
The one with authority over another; or a respectful title.
Where else “done” appears- is Elijah.”’אֵלִיָּהוּeliyahu
Elijah
Elijah: a name meaning "my El is YHWH." It is the prophet from Gilead who confronted King Ahab and the worship of Baal (1 Kings 17–2 Kings 2); two other Israelites bear the same name (1 Chronicles 8:27; Ezra 10:21).
Where else “eliyahu” appears
The context
10As YHWH your Elohim lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the kingdom and the nation swear that they had not found you.
11 · This verse (above)
12And it will be, when I go from you, that the spirit of YHWH will carry you to where I do not know; and I will come to tell Ahab, and he will not find you, and he will kill me. Yet I, your servant, have feared YHWH from my youth.