Study it in the app“and said to him, “Look, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.””
and saidוַיֹּאמְרוּto him,אֵלָיו“Look,הִנֵּהyouאַתָּהhave grown old,זָקַנְתָּand your sonsוּבָנֶיךָdo notלֹאwalkהָלְכוּin your ways.בִּדְרָכֶיךָNowעַתָּהappointשִׂימָהfor usלָּנוּa kingמֶלֶךְto judge usלְשָׁפְטֵנוּlike allכְּכָלthe nations.”הַגּוֹיִם
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsgrow old
Grow old, be old.
Where else “zakanta” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vane” appearswalk
Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.
Where else “halchu” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “derache” appearsappoint
To set someone as leader, or fix something.
Where else “sima” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsgovern
To rule the people, like Gideon or Samuel.
Where else “shafte” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah
5 · This verse (above)
6But the thing was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to YHWH.
