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He saw this,וַיַּרְאand got upוַיָּקָםand wentוַיֵּלֶךְforאֶלhis life;נַפְשׁוֹand he cameוַיָּבֹאto Beersheba,בְּאֵר שֶׁבַעwhichאֲשֶׁרbelongs to Judah,לִיהוּדָהand leftוַיַּנַּחhis young manנַעֲרוֹthere.שָׁם
1 Kings 19:3
Study it in the app“He saw this, and got up and went for his life; and he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there.”
Elijah flees and asks to die; he feels he is the only one leftLoneliness
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 19:3, word by word
- He saw thisיַּרְאyar
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yar” appears- and got upיָּקָםyakam
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakam” appears- and wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- his lifeנַפְשׁnafsh
life
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafsh” appears- and he cameיָּבֹאyavo
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appears- to Beershebaבְּאֵרbeer
Beersheba
See it on the mapWhere else “beer” appears- belongs to Judahיהוּדָהyhuda
Judah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yhuda” appears- and leftיַּנַּחyanach
leave
To leave something where it is and not take it away; not to hinder.
Where else “yanach” appears- his young manנַעֲרnaar
young servant
A young man, often in someone's service: servant, messenger or soldier.
Where else “naar” appears
Translation note
“He saw”: this is how the Hebrew text reads as it is vocalized. With the same letters one can read “he was afraid.”
Places in this verse
Beersheba
Today: Beersheba (Be'er Sheva), Israel
A city at the southern edge of the land of Israel, in the Negev desert, about 47 miles (75 km) south of Jerusalem.
Abraham and Isaac made agreements there over a well (Gen 21:31; 26:33). "From Dan to Beersheba" meant the whole land.
The context
2Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do and so may they add, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
3 · This verse (above)
4But he himself went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself to die, and said, “Enough now, YHWH! Take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”