VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Samuel 14:2

And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

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KJV King James Version

And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,

WEB World English Bible

Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

ASV American Standard Version

And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And Saul is abiding at the extremity of Gibeah, under the pomegranate which is in Migron, and the people who are with him, about six hundred men,

Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 14

1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father.

2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, [there was] a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

5 The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.

וְשָׁא֗וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaul יוֹשֵׁב֙H3427 · ya.shavto dwell בִּקְצֵ֣הH7097 · qa.tsehend הַגִּבְעָ֔הH1390 · giv.ahGibeah תַּ֥חַתH8478 · ta.chatunderneath: under הָרִמּ֖וֹןH7416 · rim.monpomegranate אֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhich בְּמִגְר֑וֹןH4051 · mig.ronMigron וְהָעָם֙H5971 · ampeople אֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhich עִמּ֔וֹH5973 · imwith כְּשֵׁ֥שׁH8337 · sheshsix מֵא֖וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundred אִֽישׁ׃H376 · ishman

Cross-references

Isaiah 10:28-29He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:1 Samuel 13:15-16And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him, about six hundred men.

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