Study it in the app“Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.””
AhabאַחְאָבsaidוַיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלObadiah,עֹבַדְיָהוּ“Goלֵךְthrough the landבָּאָרֶץtoאֶלallכָּלthe springsמַעְיְנֵיof waterהַמַּיִםand toוְאֶלallכָּלthe brooks;הַנְּחָלִיםperhapsאוּלַיwe will findנִמְצָאgrassחָצִירand keep aliveוּנְחַיֶּהhorseסוּסand mule,וָפֶרֶדand notוְלוֹאhave to cut off someנַכְרִיתofמֵthe animals.”הַבְּהֵמָה
Ahab
Ahab: a name meaning "father's brother." It is the king of Israel, son of Omri, who married Jezebel and served Baal (1 Kings 16:29–22:40); a false prophet in Babylon also bears the name (Jeremiah 29:21).
Where else “achav” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsObadiah
Obadiah: a name meaning "servant of Yah." About thirteen people in the Bible bear it; among them the man over King Ahab's household who hid a hundred prophets (1 Kings 18), and the prophet of the book that bears his name.
Where else “ovadyahu” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsspring, fountain
Spring, fountain of water; figuratively, a source.
Where else “mayne” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearstorrent
A channel that runs with water only in the rainy season.
Where else “nechalim” appearsperhaps
Perhaps, maybe.
Where else “ulay” appearsfind
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “nimtsa” appearsgrass
Grass that soon withers.
Where else “chatsir” appearskeep alive
To make someone go on living, or rescue them from death.
Where else “nechaye” appearshorse
A war and draft animal that pulls chariots, or the one who rides it.
Where else “sus” appearsmule
Mule: a riding animal of princes in the time of David.
Where else “fered” appearscut off
To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.
Where else “nachrit” appearslivestock
A four-legged animal, above all farm animals.
Where else “behema” appears4and it happened, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to each cave, and fed them with bread and water.
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6So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went by one way by himself, and Obadiah went by another way by himself.
