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He got upוַיָּקָםand ateוַיֹּאכַלand drank,וַיִּשְׁתֶּהand wentוַיֵּלֶךְin the strengthבְּכֹחַof thatהַהִיאfoodהָאֲכִילָהfortyאַרְבָּעִיםdaysיוֹםand fortyוְאַרְבָּעִיםnightsלַיְלָהtoעַדthe mountainהַרof Elohim,הָאֱלֹהִיםHoreb.חֹרֵב
1 Kings 19:8
Study it in the app“He 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.”
Elijah, worn down, asks to die; an angel has him eat and drink, and he goes on in that strengthWork and RestElijah flees and asks to die; he feels he is the only one leftLoneliness
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 19:8, word by word
- He got upיָּקָםyakam
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “yakam” appears- and ateיֹּאכַלyochal
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “yochal” appears- and drankיִּשְׁתֶּהyishte
drink
Drink.
Where else “yishte” appears- and wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- in the strengthכֹחַchoach
strength
Ability to do something: bodily strength or power to command.
Where else “choach” appears- foodאֲכִילָהachila
food
Food: what is eaten. It appears only in 1 Kings 19:8.
Where else “achila” appears- fortyאַרְבָּעִיםarbaim
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appears- daysיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- nightsלַיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears- the mountainהַרhar
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appears- of Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appears- Horebחֹרֵבchorev
Horeb
See it on the mapWhere else “chorev” appears
Translation note
Horeb is the other name of Mount Sinai, where YHWH spoke to Moses and made a covenant with Israel (Exodus 3:1; Deuteronomy 5:2).
Places in this verse
Horeb ?
Today: disputed; traditionally Jebel Musa, Sinai, Egypt
The mountain of God in the wilderness; another name for Sinai or a nearby mountain, and its location is not certain.
There God spoke to Moses from the bush that burned without burning up (Exod 3:1-2). Elijah came there fleeing from Jezebel (1 Kgs 19:8).
The context
7The angel of YHWH came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up, eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
8 · This verse (above)
9There he went into the cave and spent the night there. And the word of YHWH came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”