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They proclaimedקָרְאוּa fastצוֹםand seatedוְהֹשִׁיבוּNabothנָבוֹתat the headבְּרֹאשׁof the people.הָעָם
1 Kings 21:12
Study it in the app“They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 21:12, word by word
- They proclaimedקָרְאוּkaru
proclaim
To announce aloud.
Where else “karu” appears- a fastצוֹםtsom
fast
Fast: going without food for a time, as a sign of mourning, of sorrow for sin, or of pleading with God.
Where else “tsom” appears- and seatedהֹשִׁיבוּhoshivu
sit
To sit; or sit on the throne to reign.
Where else “hoshivu” appears- Nabothנָבוֹתnavot
Naboth
Naboth: a name that, according to the lexicon, means "fruits." He is the man of Jezreel who would not give Ahab the inheritance of his fathers and was put to death by Jezebel's order (1 Kings 21).
Where else “navot” appears- at the headרֹאשׁrosh
chief
Literally "the head": the one who leads, or the best of something.
Where else “rosh” appears- of the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears
The context
11The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
12 · This verse (above)
13And the two men, perverse men, came in and sat opposite him; and the perverse men testified against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed Elohim and the king.” So they took him out outside the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.