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Hebrew Texts וַיֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ־ הַבֵּנַ֙יִם֙ מִמַּחֲנֹ֣ות פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים גָּלְיָ֥ת שְׁמֹ֖ו מִגַּ֑ת גָּבְהֹ֕ו שֵׁ֥שׁ אַמֹּ֖ות וָזָֽרֶת׃ KJV with Strong's And there went out a champion __ out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath whose height was six cubits and a span שמואל א 17:4 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codex וַיֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ־הַבֵּנַ֙יִם֙ מִמַּחֲנֹ֣ות פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים גָּלְיָ֥ת שְׁמֹ֖ו מִגַּ֑ת גָּבְהֹ֕ו שֵׁ֥שׁ אַמֹּ֖ות וָזָֽרֶת׃ שמואל א 17:4 Hebrew OT: WLC (Consonants Only) שמואל א 17:4 Paleo-Hebrew OT: WLC (Font Required) שמואל א 17:4 Hebrew Bible Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. King James Bible And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. Holman Christian Standard Bible Then a champion named Goliath, from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was nine feet, nine inches tall Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Goliath 1 Samuel 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the … 1 Samuel 21:9,10 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you … 2 Samuel 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan … 1 Chronicles 20:5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son … of Gath 1 Samuel 27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no … Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of … 2 Samuel 21:16-22 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of … 1 Chronicles 20:4-8 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with … whose height Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold … 1 Chronicles 11:23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; … Amos 2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the … six cubits According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half, calculates that he was nine feet six inches high. Few instances can be produced of men who can be compared with him. Pliny says, `The tallest man that hath been seen in our days was one name Gabara, who, in the days of Claudius, the late Emperor, was brought out of Arabia: he was nine feet nine inches.' Josephus mentions a Jew, named Eleazar, whom Vitellius sent to Rome, who was seven cubits, or ten feet two inches high. Becanaus saw a man near ten feet, and a woman that was a full ten feet. And, to mention no more, a man of the name of John Middleton, born at Hale, near Warrington, in Lancashire, in the reign of James the First, was more than nine feet high. Dr. Plott, in his history of Staffordshire, says, that `his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a half broad, and his whole height was nine feet three inches; wanting but six inches of the height of Goliath of Gath.' Links 1 Samuel 17:4 • 1 Samuel 17:4 NIV • 1 Samuel 17:4 NLT • 1 Samuel 17:4 ESV • 1 Samuel 17:4 NASB • 1 Samuel 17:4 KJV • 1 Samuel 17:4 Bible Apps • 1 Samuel 17:4 Biblia Paralela • 1 Samuel 17:4 Chinese Bible • 1 Samuel 17:4 French Bible • 1 Samuel 17:4 German Bible • Bible Hub |
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