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Thereשָׁםhe wentוַיָּבֹאintoאֶלthe caveהַמְּעָרָהand spent the nightוַיָּלֶןthere.שָׁםAndוְהִנֵּהthe wordדְבַרof YHWHיְהוָהcame to him,אֵלָיוand he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto him,לוֹ“Whatמַהare you doingלְּךָhere,פֹהElijah?”אֵלִיָּהוּ
1 Kings 19:9
Study it in the app“There 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?””
Elijah flees and asks to die; he feels he is the only one leftLoneliness
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 19:9, word by word
- he wentיָּבֹאyavo
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “yavo” appears- the caveמְּעָרָהmeara
cave
Cave.
Where else “meara” appears- and spent the nightיָּלֶןyalen
spend the night
To stay in a place through the night, to sleep or to keep watch.
Where else “yalen” appears- the wordדְבַרdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” 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- and he saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- Elijahאֵלִיָּהוּeliyahu
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
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.
9 · This verse (above)
10He said, “I have been very jealous for YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, for the sons of Israel have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.”