1 Samuel 8 · Verse 13

1 Samuel 8:13

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel 8:13, King James Version

1 Samuel 8:13 in other translations

BSBAnd he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
WEBHe will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
ASVAnd he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
YLT‘And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
DARBYAnd he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
BBEYour daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
WebsterAnd he will take your daughters to be confectioneries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

What does 1 Samuel 8:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. he will take your daughters to be confectionaries--Cookery, baking, and the kindred works are, in Eastern countries, female employment, and thousands of young women are occupied with these offices in the palaces even of petty princes.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 8:10-22

If they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those that submit to the government of the world and the flesh, are told plainly, what hard masters they are, and what tyranny the dominion of sin is. The law of God and the manner of men widely differ from each other; the former should be our rule in the several relations of life; the…

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1 Samuel 8:13 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.

וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖םbe.no.tei.Khemdaughters yourH1323
יִקָּ֑חyi.Kachhe will takeH3947
לְרַקָּח֥וֹתle.ra.ka.Chotto perfumersH7548
וּלְטַבָּח֖וֹתu.le.ta.ba.Chotand to cooksH2879
וּלְאֹפֽוֹת\׃u.le.'o.Fotand to bakersH644

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

Context

  • 1 Samuel 8:12

    And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

  • 1 Samuel 8:13

    And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

  • 1 Samuel 8:14

    And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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1 Samuel 8:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Tomará también vuestras hijas para que sean perfumadoras, cocineras, y amasadoras.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il prendra vos filles pour parfumeuses et pour cuisinières et pour boulangères.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und eure Töchter wird er nehmen zu Salbenmischerinnen und zu Köchinnen und zu Bäckerinnen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Filias quoque vestras faciet sibi unguentarias, et focarias, et panificas.