1 Samuel 26:8
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

Young's Literal Translation
And Abishai saith unto David, ‘God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once—and I do repeat [it] to him.’

King James Bible
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.

Hebrew
Abishai
אֲבִישַׁי֙ (’ă·ḇî·šay)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 52: Abishai -- 'my father is Jesse', an Israelite name

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

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

David,
דָּוִ֔ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

“Today
הַיּ֛וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

God
אֱלֹהִ֥ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has delivered
סִגַּ֨ר (sig·gar)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5462: To shut up, to surrender

your enemy
אוֹיִבְךָ֖ (’ō·w·yiḇ·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

into your hand.
בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ (bə·yā·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

Now, therefore,
וְעַתָּה֩ (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

please
נָ֜א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

let me thrust the spear
בַּחֲנִ֤ית (ba·ḥă·nîṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2595: A lance

through him
אַכֶּ֨נּוּ (’ak·ken·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

into the ground
וּבָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (ū·ḇā·’ā·reṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

with one
אַחַ֔ת (’a·ḥaṯ)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

stroke.
פַּ֣עַם (pa·‘am)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6471: A beat, foot, anvil, occurrence

I will not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

need to strike him twice!”
אֶשְׁנֶ֖ה (’eš·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8138: To fold, duplicate, to transmute

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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