Study it in the app“There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; the man was very rich and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.”
There was a manוְאִישׁin Maonבְּמָעוֹןwhose business wasוּמַעֲשֵׂהוּin Carmel;בַכַּרְמֶלthe manוְהָאִישׁwas veryמְאֹדrichגָּדוֹלand hadוְלוֹthreeשְׁלֹשֶׁתthousandאֲלָפִיםsheepצֹאןand a thousandוְאֶלֶףgoats;עִזִּיםand he wasוַיְהִיshearingבִּגְזֹזhis sheepצֹאנוֹin Carmel.בַּכַּרְמֶל
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsMaon
Maon: a town of Judah in the hill country; also the name of a man of Judah. The name means "dwelling."
Where else “maon” appearslabor
What one does each day to earn a living: his work, his trade.
Where else “maase” appearsCarmel
See it on the mapWhere else “karmel” appearsvery
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appearspowerful
The powerful, "the great".
Where else “gadol” appearsthree
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “sheloshet” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alafim” appearsflock
A flock of sheep and goats.
Where else “tson” appearsgoat
The female of the goat flock, used for milk and hair.
Where else “izim” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appearsshear
To clip the wool from flocks.
Where else “gezoz” appears“Very rich” is literally “very great.” This Carmel is a town of Judah, near Maon (not Mount Carmel in the north).
Carmel
Today: Mount Carmel, near Haifa, Israel
A mountain ridge near the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel, by present-day Haifa.
Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal there, and fire from the Lord fell (1 Kgs 18:19-38).
1Samuel died, and all Israel gathered and lamented for him and buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 · This verse (above)
3The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful in form, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was a Calebite.
