1 Samuel 19:13

In 11 translations

BSB

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.Or a household god; Hebrew teraphim; also in verse 16

KJV

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.image: Heb. teraphim

WEB

Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

ASV

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

LSV

and Michal takes the teraphim, and lays [it] on the bed, and she has put the mattress of goats’ [hair for] his pillows, and covers [it] with a garment.

YLT

and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats' [hair] she hath put [for] his pillows, and covereth with a garment.

DBY

And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put the net of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the coverlet.

DRC

And Michol took an image and laid it on the bed, and put a goat’s skin with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

GNV

Then Michal tooke an image, and layde it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed with goates heare vnder the head of it, and couered it with a cloth.

JPS

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth.

LXXE

And Melchol took images, and laid them on the bed, and she put the liver of a goat by his head, and covered them with clothes.Heb. teraphim, probably such images as were put on monuments.כבר liver, has evidently been read here for כביר a quilt, or perhaps a pillow.

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WLC

וַתִּקַּ֨ח מִיכַ֜ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֗ים וַתָּ֨שֶׂם֙ אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֔ה וְאֵת֙ כְּבִ֣יר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שָׂ֖מָה מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו וַתְּכַ֖ס בַּבָּֽגֶד׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ Μελχὸλ τὰ κενοτάφια, καὶ ἔθετο ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην, καὶ ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν ἔθετο πρὸς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτὰ ἱματίῳ.

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• Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
• Judges 18:17And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred…
• Judges 18:14Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you…
• Hosea 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
• Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

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