1 Samuel 10 · Verse 23

1 Samuel 10:23

And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
1 Samuel 10:23, King James Version

1 Samuel 10:23 in other translations

BSBSo they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.
WEBThey ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
ASVAnd they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
YLTAnd they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.
DARBYAnd they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
BBESo they went quickly and made him come out; and when he took his place among the people, he was taller by a head than any of the people.
WebsterAnd they ran and brought him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

What does 1 Samuel 10:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 10:17-25

17-25. Samuel called the people together ... at Mizpeh--a shaft-like hill near Hebron, five hundred feet in height. The national assemblies of the Israelites were held there. A day having been appointed for the election of a king, Samuel, after having charged the people with a rejection of God's institution and a superseding of it by one of their own, proceeded to the nomination of the new monarch. As it was of the…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 10:17-27

Samuel tells the people, Ye have this day rejected your God. So little fond was Saul now of that power, which soon after, when he possessed it, he could not think of parting with, that he hid himself. It is good to be conscious of our unworthiness and insufficiency for the services to which we are called; but men should not go into the contrary extreme, by refusing the employments to which the Lord and the church…

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1 Samuel 10:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּרֻ֙צוּ֙vai.ya.Ru.tzuand they ranH7323
וַיִּקָּחֻ֣הוּvai.yi.ka.Chu.huand they took himH3947
מִשָּׁ֔םmi.Shamfrom thereH8033
וַיִּתְיַצֵּ֖בvai.yit.ya.Tzevand he presented himselfH3320
בְּת֣וֹךְbe.Tokhin amongH8432
הָעָ֑םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
וַיִּגְבַּהּ֙vai.yig.Bahand he was tallH1361
מִכָּל\־mi.kolmore than allH3605
הָעָ֔םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
מִשִּׁכְמ֖וֹmi.shikh.Mofrom shoulder hisH7926
וָמָֽעְלָה\׃va.Ma.'e.lahand up -wardsH4605

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Samuel 10:23

  • 1 Samuel 9:2

    And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

  • 1 Samuel 17:4

    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.

  • 1 Samuel 16:7

    But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

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he was higher.
9:2; 16:7; 17:4

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Context

  • 1 Samuel 10:22

    Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.

  • 1 Samuel 10:23

    And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

  • 1 Samuel 10:24

    And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.

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1 Samuel 10:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces corrieron, y tomáronlo de allí, y puesto en medio del pueblo, desde el hombro arriba era más alto que todo el pueblo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et ils coururent, et le prirent de là; et il se tint au milieu du peuple, et il était plus grand que tout le peuple, depuis les épaules en haut.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da liefen sie hin und holten ihn von dannen; und er stellte sich mitten unter das Volk, und er war höher als alles Volk, von seiner Schulter an aufwärts.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Cucurrerunt itaque et tulerunt eum inde: stetitque in medio populi, et altior fuit universo populo ab humero et sursum.