1 Samuel 10:4

“And they will ask you about your welfare and give you two loaves of bread, and you shall take them from their hand.”

1 Samuel 10:4 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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1 Samuel 10:4, word by word

And they will askשָׁאֲלוּshaalu

greet

To greet, ask how someone is.

Where else “shaalu” appears
about your welfareשָׁלוֹםshalom

well-being

Health, safety, nothing lacking.

Where else “shalom” appears
and giveנָתְנוּnatnu

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

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twoשְׁתֵּיshete

two

A pair, a quantity of two.

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loaves of breadלֶחֶםlechem

bread

Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.

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and you shall take themלָקַחְתָּlakachta

take

To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.

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from their handיָּדָyada

hand

The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.

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The context

3Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

4 · This verse (above)

5After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

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