KJV King James Version
[And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
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1 Samuel 9:11
[And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
WEB World English Bible
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
ASV American Standard Version
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They are going up in the ascent of the city, and have found young women going out to draw water, and say to them, ‘Is the seer in this place?’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 9
8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God [was].
11 [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
14 And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הֵ֗מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)עֹלִים֙H5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseבְּמַעֲלֵ֣הH4608 · ma.a.lehascentהָעִ֔ירH5892 · irexcitementוְהֵ֙מָּה֙H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)מָצְא֣וּH4672 · ma.tsato findנְעָר֔וֹתH5291 · na.a.rahmaidenיֹצְא֖וֹתH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeלִשְׁאֹ֣בH7579 · sha.avto drawמָ֑יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterוַיֹּאמְר֣וּH559 · a.marto sayלָהֶ֔ןH9039 · henthemהֲיֵ֥שׁH3426 · yeshthereבָּזֶ֖הH2088 · zehthisהָרֹאֶֽה׃H7203 · ro.ehseer
Cross-references
Genesis 24:11And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, [even] the time that women go out to draw [water].Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.Judges 5:11[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.Genesis 24:18-20And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
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