1 Kings 18:44
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, at the seventh, that he saith, ‘Lo, a little thickness as the palm of a man is coming up out of the sea.’ And he saith, ‘Go up, say unto Ahab, ‘Bind—and go down, and the shower doth not restrain thee.’

King James Bible
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

Hebrew
On the seventh time
בַּשְּׁבִעִ֔ית (baš·šə·ḇi·‘îṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular
Strong's 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

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

“There is
הִנֵּה־ (hin·nêh-)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

a cloud
עָ֛ב (‘āḇ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

as small
קְטַנָּ֥ה (qə·ṭan·nāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 6996: Small, young, unimportant

as a man’s
אִ֖ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

hand
כְּכַף־ (kə·ḵap̄-)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

rising
עֹלָ֣ה (‘ō·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

from the sea.”
מִיָּ֑ם (mî·yām)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

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

“Go
עֲלֵ֨ה (‘ă·lêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and tell
אֱמֹ֤ר (’ĕ·mōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

Ahab,
אַחְאָב֙ (’aḥ·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 256: Ahab -- 'father's brother', a king of Israel, also a false prophet

‘Prepare [your chariot]
אֱסֹ֣ר (’ĕ·sōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

and go down
וָרֵ֔ד (wā·rêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

before the rain
הַגָּֽשֶׁם׃ (hag·gā·šem)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1653: Rain, shower

stops you.’”
יַעַצָרְכָ֖ה (ya·‘a·ṣā·rə·ḵāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6113: To inclose, to hold back, to maintain, rule, assemble

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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