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She saidוַתֹּאמֶרto her young men,לִנְעָרֶיהָ“Go onעִבְרוּahead of me;לְפָנַיlook, Iהִנְנִיam comingבָּאָהafter you.”אַחֲרֵיכֶםButוּshe did notלֹאtellהִגִּידָהher husbandלְאִישָׁהּNabal.נָבָל
1 Samuel 25:19
Study it in the app“She said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; look, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Samuel 25:19, word by word
- She saidתֹּאמֶרtomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appears- to her young menנְעָרֶיneare
young servant
A young man, often in someone's service: servant, messenger or soldier.
Where else “neare” appears- “Go onעִבְרוּivru
pass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “ivru” appears- ahead of meפָנַfana
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fana” appears- am comingבָּאָהbaa
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baa” appears- tellהִגִּידָהhigida
tell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “higida” appears- her husbandאִישָׁisha
husband
Literally "her man": the one married to her.
Where else “isha” appears- Nabalנָבָלnaval
Nabal
Nabal, a rich man of Maon, husband of Abigail, who scorned David (1 Samuel 25). His name sounds the same as the Hebrew word for "fool".
Where else “naval” appears
The context
18Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.
19 · This verse (above)
20As she was riding on the donkey and coming down under cover of the mountain, look, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.