And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| after | וְאַחֲרָ֛יו ve.'a.cha.Rav | H310 | properly · conjunction + cardinal number, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular |
| Shammah | שַׁמָּה Shammâh | H8048 | Shammah |
| son | בֶן ven- | H1121 | a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct |
| Agee | אָגֵ֖א 'a.Ge' | H89 | Age · proper noun, a man's name |
| Hararite | הָרָרִ֑י ha.ra.Ri | H2043 | Hararite · noun, gentilic masculine singular absolute |
| Philistines | פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים fe.lish.Tim | H6430 | a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth · noun, gentilic masculine plural absolute |
| together | וַיֵּאָסְפ֨וּ vai.ye.'a.se.Fu | H622 | to gather for any purpose · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural |
| troop | לַחַיָּ֗ה la.chai.Yah | H2416 | alive · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute |
| piece | חֶלְקַ֤ת chel.Kat | H2513 | properly · noun, common feminine singular construct |
| ground | הַשָּׂדֶה֙ ha.sa.Deh | H7704 | a field (as flat) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| full | מְלֵאָ֣ה me.le.'Ah | H4392 | full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally) · verb, qal active participle, feminine singular absolute |
| lentiles | עֲדָשִׁ֔ים 'a.da.Shim | H5742 | a lentil · noun, common masculine plural absolute |
| people | וְהָעָ֥ם ve.ha.'Am | H5971 | a people (as a congregated unit) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute |
| fled | נָ֖ס nas | H5127 | to flit · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular |
| from | מִפְּנֵ֥י mi.pe.Nei | H6440 | the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct |
| Philistines | פְלִשְׁתִּֽים fe.lish.Tim | H6430 | a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth · noun, gentilic masculine plural absolute |
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A piece of ground full of lentiles - In Ch1 11:13 it is a parcel of ground full of barley. There is probably a mistake of עדשים adashim, lentiles, for שעורים seorim, barley, or vice versa. Some think there were both lentiles and barley in the field, and that a marauding party of the Philistines came to destroy or carry them off, and these worthies defeated the whole, and saved the produce of the field. This is not unlikely.
And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite,.... One who was of the mountainous country, as the Targum, the hill country of Judea, of Hebron, or the parts adjacent; this was the third of the first three; there was one of this name among the thirty, 2 Samuel 23:33, and the Philistines were gathered together into a troop; but so they were no doubt at first; R. Isaiah takes it to be the name of a place called Chiyah; as the Targum, Chayatha; and which Kimchi says was a village, an unwalled town; and Ben Melech observes, that it is said in the Arabic language, a collection of houses is called Alchai: it may be the same with Lehi, where Samson slew a thousand with the jawbone of an as…
Read the whole note in the consoleThe following list of David's heroes we also find in 1 Chron 11:10-47, and expanded at the end by sixteen names (Ch1 11:41-47), and attached in Ch1 11:10 to the account of the conquest of the fortress of Zion by the introduction of a special heading. According to this heading, the heroes named assisted David greatly in his kingdom, along with all Israel, to make him king, from which it is evident that the chronicler intended by this heading to justify his appending the list to the account of the election of David as king over all the tribes of Israel (Ch1 11:1), and of the conquest of Zion, which followed immediately afterwards. In every other respect the two lists agree with one another, ex…
Read the whole note in the consoleDictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
to collect the plunder: Cp. 1 Sam 30:9-10, 21-25.
From the mountain. From the mountain. For [war like] beast in the wild. [Gathering] to become troops like the beasts gather in the wild.
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