19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to 1 Samuel 18:19. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וַיְהִ֗י בְּעֵ֥ת תֵּ֛ת אֶת־מֵרַ֥ב בַּת־שָׁא֖וּל לְדָוִ֑ד וְהִ֧יא נִתְּנָ֛ה לְעַדְרִיאֵ֥ל הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
וַיְהִ֗י
בְּעֵ֥ת
תֵּ֛ת
אֶת
בַּת
לְדָוִ֑ד
וְהִ֧יא
נִתְּנָ֛ה
לְעַדְרִיאֵ֥ל
הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܗܘܐ ܙܒܢܐ ܠܡܬܠ ܠܢܕܒ ܒܪܬ ܫܐܘܠ ܠܕܘܝܕ ܘܗܝ ܐܬܝܗܒܬ ܠܥܙܪܐܝܠ ܕܡܢ ܡܚܘܠܐ ܐܢܬܬܐ
ܘܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- whw'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 367
ܙܒܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܙܒܢܐ
- Transliteration
- zbn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 147
ܠܡܬܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܡܬܠ
- Transliteration
- lmtl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 40
ܠܢܕܒ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܢܕܒ
- Transliteration
- lndb
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܒܪܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܪܬ
- Transliteration
- brt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 105
ܫܐܘܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܫܐܘܠ
- Transliteration
- sh'wl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 265
ܠܕܘܝܕ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܕܘܝܕ
- Transliteration
- ldwyd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 181
ܘܗܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- why
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 29
ܐܬܝܗܒܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܬܝܗܒܬ
- Transliteration
- 'tyhbt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 11
ܠܥܙܪܐܝܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܥܙܪܐܝܠ
- Transliteration
- l'zr'yl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 2
ܕܡܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܢ
- Transliteration
- dmn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 417
ܡܚܘܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܚܘܠܐ
- Transliteration
- mhwl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 7
ܐܢܬܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܢܬܬܐ
- Transliteration
- 'ntt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 166
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
וַהֲוָה בְּעִידָן דִמְטָא לְמִתַּן יַת מֵרַב בַּת שָׁאוּל לְדָוִד וְהִיא אִתְיְהִיבַת לְעַדְרִיאֵל דְמִמְחוֹלַת לְאִתִּי׃
וַהֲוָה
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- הוה
- Transliteration
- whwh
- Morphology
- prefixed conjunction ו + verbal root הוה
- Gloss
- and was, became, happened
- Occurrences
- 1114
בְּעִידָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עידן
- Transliteration
- b'ydn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 27
דִמְטָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מטא
- Transliteration
- dmt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 46
לְמִתַּן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מתן
- Transliteration
- lmtn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 70
יַת
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ית
- Transliteration
- yt
- Morphology
- accusative/direct object marker
- Gloss
- direct object marker
- Occurrences
- 4303
מֵרַב
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מרב
- Transliteration
- mrb
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 4
בַּת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- בת
- Transliteration
- bt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 65
שָׁאוּל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שאול
- Transliteration
- sh'wl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 424
לְדָוִד
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- דוד
- Transliteration
- ldwd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1106
וְהִיא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- היא
- Transliteration
- why'
- Morphology
- prefixed conjunction ו + personal/demonstrative pronoun
- Gloss
- and she, it
- Occurrences
- 241
אִתְיְהִיבַת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתיהיבת
- Transliteration
- 'tyhybt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 24
לְעַדְרִיאֵל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עדריאל
- Transliteration
- l'dry'l
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 2
דְמִמְחוֹלַת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ממחולת
- Transliteration
- dmmchwlt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1
לְאִתִּי׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתי
- Transliteration
- l'ty
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 138
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Factum est autem tempus cum deberet dari Merob filia Saul David, data est Hadrieli Molathitæ uxor.
factum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- facio
- Transliteration
- factum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 4719
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
tempus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tempus
- Transliteration
- tempus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 761
cum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- cum
- Transliteration
- cum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5272
deberet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- debeo
- Transliteration
- deberet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 148
dari
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- do
- Transliteration
- dari
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2116
Merob
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- meror
- Transliteration
- Merob
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 39
filia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- filia
- Transliteration
- filia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 566
Saul
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Saul
- Transliteration
- Saul
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 388
David
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Dauid
- Transliteration
- David
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 1095
data
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- do
- Transliteration
- data
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2116
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
Hadrihel
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Hadrihel
- Transliteration
- Hadrihel
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 1
Molathitae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Molathitae
- Transliteration
- Molathitae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 1
uxor
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uxor
- Transliteration
- uxor
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 505
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Greek Septuagint tradition often follows different ordering, grouping, or book structure here. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate structure
This Greek source uses tradition-specific ordering or verse grouping here. The closest one-to-one panel is not currently attached for this exact reference.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Judges 7:22
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
5 relevance votes2 Samuel 21:8
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
5 relevance votesJudges 14:20
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
2 relevance votes