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As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.
Berean Standard Bible · CC0
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wə·hā·yāh kə·hap̄·nō·ṯōw šiḵ·mōw lā·le·ḵeṯ mê·‘im šə·mū·’êl ’ĕ·lō·hîm way·ya·hă·p̄āḵ- lōw lêḇ ’a·ḥêr kāl- hā·’ō·ṯō·wṯ hā·’êl·leh way·yā·ḇō·’ū ha·hū bay·yō·wm
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√ hâyâh — to exist, iConjunctive wawVerbQalConjunctive perfectthird person masculine singular
√ pânâh — to turnPreposition-kVerbHifilInfinitive constructthird person masculine singular
pânâh — to turn (Hifil infinitive construct) The Hifil is causative: he made his shoulder turn. This is the departure Samuel had scheduled in 10:2–8; the signs begin to fire the moment Saul's back is toward the prophet, so that no one can say the prophet worked them.
√ shᵉkem — the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdensNounmasculine singular constructthird person masculine singular
shᵉkem — the neck between the shoulders, the place of burdens Not an idle word. The same noun names the shoulder on which a yoke or a load is set. Saul turns the burden-bearing part of himself away from Samuel and, in that motion, receives the heaviest burden in Israel.
√ hâlak — to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)Preposition-lVerbQalInfinitive construct
√ ʻim — adverb or preposition, with (iPreposition-m
√ Shᵉmûwʼêl — Shemuel, the name of three IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
√ ʼĕlôhîym — gods in the ordinary senseNounmasculine plural
√ hâphak — to turn about or overConjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
hâphak — to turn about or over (Qal consecutive imperfect) The strong verb of reversal — used of overturning cities, of turning water to blood, of a thing flipped end for end. Set against Saul's own gentler pânâh in the same clause, the narrator draws a picture: the man pivots on his heel; God upends his interior. Pulpit: “God turned him round by giving him a changed heart.”
ל֥וֹlōw[Saul’s]
Prepositionthird person masculine singular
Dative of advantage: for him, not merely in him.
√ lêb — the heartNounmasculine singular
lêb — the heart In Hebrew the lêb is not the seat of sentiment but the whole inner government — mind, will, resolve. Cambridge: it denotes “the centre of the whole mental and spiritual life of will, desire, thought, perception, and feeling.” What God overturns, then, is the command centre of the man, not his mood.
√ ʼachêr — properly, hinderAdjectivemasculine singular
ʼachêr — other, another The adjective withholds what the reader most wants to know. It says different, not better, not new. The rest of 1 Samuel will spend twenty chapters showing how much a heart can be other and still not be the heart after God's own (1 Samuel 13:14).
√ kôl — properly, the wholeNounmasculine singular construct
√ ʼôwth — a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etcArticleNouncommon plural
ʼôwth — a signal, beacon, omen, evidence The same noun used of the sign to Moses at the bush and of the covenant sign of the rainbow. Here three of them land in one day. The narrator reports the fulfilment in a half-line and refuses to narrate the first two at all; K&D and Cambridge both note that only the third is described, because only the third was public.
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thoseArticlePronouncommon plural
√ bôwʼ — to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)Conjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine plural
√ hûwʼ — he (she or it)ArticlePronounthird person masculine singular
√ yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)Preposition-b, ArticleNounmasculine singular
Time-stamp: “in the day, the that.” The whole overturn of a man is dated to a single day's walk home.