1 Kings 17:10
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

Young's Literal Translation

And he riseth, and goeth to Zarephath, and cometh in unto the opening of the city, and lo there, a widow woman gathering sticks, and he calleth unto her, and saith, ‘Bring, I pray thee, to me, a little water in a vessel, and I drink.’

King James Bible

So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Hebrew
So Elijah got up
וַיָּ֣קָם ׀ (way·yā·qām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and went
וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (way·yê·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

to Zarephath.
צָרְפַ֗תָה (ṣā·rə·p̄a·ṯāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6886: Zarephath -- 'smelting place', a city South of Sidon

When he arrived
וַיָּבֹא֙ (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

at
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the city
הָעִ֔יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

gate,
פֶּ֣תַח (pe·ṯaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

there
שָׁ֛ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

was a widow
אַלְמָנָ֖ה (’al·mā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place

gathering
מְקֹשֶׁ֣שֶׁת (mə·qō·še·šeṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7197: To forage for, straw, stubble, wood, to assemble

sticks.
עֵצִ֑ים (‘ê·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood

Elijah called
וַיִּקְרָ֤א (way·yiq·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

to
אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

her and said,
וַיֹּאמַ֔ר (way·yō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Please
נָ֨א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

bring
קְחִי־ (qə·ḥî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

me
לִ֧י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

a little
מְעַט־ (mə·‘aṭ-)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few

water
מַ֛יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

in a cup,
בַּכְּלִ֖י (bak·kə·lî)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

so that I may drink.”
וְאֶשְׁתֶּֽה׃ (wə·’eš·teh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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