1 Samuel 15:18
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Berean Study Bible

and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’

Young's Literal Translation

and Jehovah sendeth thee in the way, and saith, Go, and thou hast devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;

King James Bible

And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

Hebrew
and sent
וַיִּשְׁלָחֲךָ֥ (way·yiš·lā·ḥă·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

you on a mission,
בְּדָ֑רֶךְ (bə·ḏā·reḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

saying,
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘Go
לֵ֣ךְ (lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

and completely destroy
וְהַחֲרַמְתָּ֞ה (wə·ha·ḥă·ram·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses, to be blunt as to the nose

the sinful
הַֽחַטָּאִים֙ (ha·ḥaṭ·ṭā·’îm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2400: A criminal, one accounted guilty

Amalekites.
עֲמָלֵ֔ק (‘ă·mā·lêq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6002: Amalek -- a descendant of Esau, also his posterity

Fight
וְנִלְחַמְתָּ֣ (wə·nil·ḥam·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

against them
ב֔וֹ (ḇōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

until
עַ֥ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

you have wiped them out.’
כַּלּוֹתָ֖ם (kal·lō·w·ṯām)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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