1 Samuel 8:17
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
Hee will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
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1 Samuel 8:17
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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Sense 1: Flock animals kept for wool, food, and sacrifice. Sense 2: Figuratively, people pictured as a flock or as needing a shepherd.
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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
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16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
16And hee will take your men seruants, and your mayd seruants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.
17He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
17Hee will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
Selected passage18And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
18And ye shall cry out in that day, because of your king which ye shall haue chosen you; and the LORD will not heare you in that day.