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And SamuelשְׁמוּאֵלjudgedוַיִּשְׁפֹּטIsraelאֶת יִשְׂרָאֵלallכֹּלthe daysיְמֵיof his life.חַיָּיו
1 Samuel 7:15
Study it in the app“And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Samuel 7:15, word by word
- And Samuelשְׁמוּאֵלshemuel
Samuel
Samuel, the name of two persons. One was a chief of the tribe of Simeon (Numbers 34:20). The best known is the son of Elkanah and Hannah, prophet and last judge of Israel, who anointed the kings Saul and David. The name sounds like "heard by El" or "name of El."
Where else “shemuel” appears- judgedיִּשְׁפֹּטyishpot
govern
To rule the people, like Gideon or Samuel.
Where else “yishpot” appears- Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- the daysיְמֵיyeme
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appears- of his lifeחַיָּיchayay
life
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chayay” appears
The context
14And the cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.
15 · This verse (above)
16He would go year by year and make the round of Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and judge Israel in all these places.