The Meaning of 1 Samuel 8:13 Explained

1 Samuel 8:13

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

YLT: 'And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;

Darby: And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.

ASV: And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does 1 Samuel 8:13 Mean?

Context Summary

1 Samuel 8:10-22 - Rejecting The Prophet's Warning
The people had entreated Samuel to cry unto God in their behalf; and now we see him going to and fro between the people and God, as a true mediator and intercessor. "He told all the words of the Lord unto the people," 1 Samuel 8:10; and, "He rehearsed all the words of the people in the ears of the Lord," 1 Samuel 8:21. See also 1 Samuel 8:22. Samuel is fitly described in the Psalter as one who called upon God's name, Psalms 99:6. How much we may influence the life of a nation or of an individual if we will only pray with persistent and believing earnestness! We cannot dispense with our statesmen, but our prophets-the Samuels and the Elijahs-are the most efficient chariots and horsemen of protection, 2 Kings 2:12.
The people could not answer Samuel's grave and graphic words. They contented themselves with repeating their request, and soon they learned the bitterness of imposing their own will upon God. They would have a king, and God gave them their hearts' desire, but see Psalms 106:15. When Samuel had received God's reply, he set himself, with all his power, to further the matter, at all cost to himself. We are reminded of that noble reply of the Baptist in John 3:31. God's will ever first and supreme! [source]

Chapter Summary: 1 Samuel 8

1  By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king
6  Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God
10  He tells the manner of a king
19  God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people

What do the individual words in 1 Samuel 8:13 mean?

And your daughters He will take [to [be] perfumers and cooks and bakers
וְאֶת־ בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם יִקָּ֑ח לְרַקָּח֥וֹת וּלְטַבָּח֖וֹת וּלְאֹפֽוֹת

בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם  your  daughters 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: בַּת  
Sense: daughter.
יִקָּ֑ח  He  will  take 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
לְרַקָּח֥וֹת  [to  [be]  perfumers 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural
Root: רַקָּחָה  
Sense: ointment-maker (female), perfumer (female).
וּלְטַבָּח֖וֹת  and  cooks 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural
Root: טַבָּחָה  
Sense: female cook, cook.
וּלְאֹפֽוֹת  and  bakers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine plural
Root: אָפָה 
Sense: to bake.

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