1 Samuel 18:12:101 Sam.18.12.W10TAB
סָֽר׃
sar
“he departed”
- Transliteration
- SAR
- Extended
- SAAR
- IPA
- /ˈsaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- he departed
Alphabet Analysis
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
SAR
- clause
KI-ha-YA ye-ho-VAH i-MO u-me-IM sha-UL SAR
- sentence
va-yi-RA sha-UL mi-li-fe-NE da-VID KI-ha-YA ye-ho-VAH i-MO u-me-IM sha-UL SAR
Exegesis
In contrast, û-mê-ʿim Šāʾûl sār {וּמֵעִ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל סָֽר | û-mê-ʿim šāʾûl sār} ‘and had departed from Saul’ completes a chiastic parallelism that highlights divine presence and absence. The perfect tense of hāyâ and sār denotes completed actions, and the shift from verb-initial Hebrew to subject-verb-object English preserves both theological emphasis and narrative clarity.
Root and etymology
s-rsamekh–resh
“to turn aside, withdraw”
In context — 1 Samuel 18:12
And Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him, but He had departed from Saul.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 18:12:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 1 Samuel 18:12, so the Hebrew word סָֽר׃ (sar) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.18.12.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.18.12.W10.S1) and character.