1 Samuel 8:17
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Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

Context
Samuel's Warning
16Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work. 17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.18And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:16
Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.

1 Samuel 8:18
And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

1 Samuel 17:8
And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand.

Lexicon
He will take a tenth
יַעְשֹׂ֑ר (ya‘·śōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6237: To tithe, to take, give a, tenth

of your flocks,
צֹאנְכֶ֖ם (ṣō·nə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

and you yourselves
וְאַתֶּ֖ם (wə·’at·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

will become
תִּֽהְיוּ־ (tih·yū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

his
ל֥וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

slaves.
לַעֲבָדִֽים׃ (la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5650: Slave, servant


Additional Translations
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.He will take the tenth of your sheep: and you shall be his servants.

He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.

And he will tithe your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.

He will take the tenth of your sheep. And ye shall be his servants.

He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.

He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye will be his servants.

He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.
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