Study it in the app“Now go and strike Amalek, and devote to destruction all that he has; do not spare him, but put to death from man to woman, from child to nursing infant, from ox to lamb, from camel to donkey.’””
Nowעַתָּהgoלֵךְand strikeוְהִכִּיתָהAmalek,אֶת עֲמָלֵקand devote to destructionוְהַחֲרַמְתֶּםallאֶת כָּלthatאֲשֶׁרhe has;לוֹdo notוְלֹאspareתַחְמֹלhim,עָלָיוbut put to deathוְהֵמַתָּהfrom manמֵאִישׁto woman,עַד אִשָּׁהfrom childמֵעֹלֵלto nursing infant,וְעַד יוֹנֵקfrom oxמִשּׁוֹרto lamb,וְעַד שֶׂהfrom camelמִגָּמָלto donkey.’”וְעַד חֲמוֹר
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appearsdefeat
To attack and beat in battle.
Where else “hikita” appearsAmalek
Amalek, a grandson of Esau. The Amalekites, who became enemies of Israel, descend from him; the name also stands for that people.
Where else “amalek” appearsdevote to destruction
To give something wholly to YHWH, often by destroying it.
Where else “hacharamtem” appearshave pity, spare
Feel pity, want to save someone; spare.
Where else “tachmol” appearskill
To kill someone.
Where else “hemata” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearswoman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appearsyoung child
A small child, an infant. Said of young children, often together with "the nursing child."
Where else “olel” appearssuck
For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.
Where else “yonek” appearsox, bull
Ox or bull: a head of cattle.
Where else “shor” appearslamb, sheep
One animal of the flock: a lamb, a sheep or a young goat.
Where else “se” appearscamel
Camel.
Where else “gamal” appearsdonkey
Donkey, male donkey.
Where else “chamor” appearsTo “devote to destruction” was to hand something over completely to God, without anyone being able to keep it (Joshua 6:17-18).
2Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: ‘I call to account what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
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4Saul summoned the people and counted them at Telaim: two hundred thousand foot soldiers, and ten thousand men of Judah.
