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The angelמַלְאַךְof YHWHיְהוָהcame backוַיָּשָׁבa second timeשֵׁנִיתand touchedוַיִּגַּעhimבּוֹand said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Get up,קוּםeat,אֱכֹלforכִּיthe journeyהַדָּרֶךְis too muchרַבfor you.”מִמְּךָ
1 Kings 19:7
Study it in the app“The angel of YHWH came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up, eat, for the journey is too much for you.””
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With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 19:7, word by word
- The angelמַלְאַךְmalach
angel
A messenger from God, a heavenly being.
Where else “malach” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- came backיָּשָׁבyashav
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashav” appears- a second timeשֵׁנִיתshenit
again
Once more, after having been done before.
Where else “shenit” appears- and touchedיִּגַּעyiga
touch
To lay a hand or finger on something, sometimes to take it or harm it.
Where else “yiga” appears- and saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Get upקוּםkum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appears- eatאֱכֹלechol
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “echol” appears- the journeyדָּרֶךְdarech
journey
The stretch one covers going from place to place, and how long it takes.
Where else “darech” appears- is too muchרַבrav
much
In great quantity, more than expected.
Where else “rav” appears
The context
6He looked, and there, at his head, was a cake baked on hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
7 · This verse (above)
8He got up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to the mountain of Elohim, Horeb.