1 Samuel 15:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

Young's Literal Translation
and Saul hath pity—also the people—on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that [is] good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted—it they devoted.

King James Bible
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Hebrew
Saul
שָׁא֨וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

and his troops
וְהָעָ֜ם (wə·hā·‘ām)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

spared
וַיַּחְמֹל֩ (way·yaḥ·mōl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2550: To commiserate, to spare

Agag,
אֲגָ֗ג (’ă·ḡāḡ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 90: Agag -- king of Amalek

along with
וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the best
מֵיטַ֣ב (mê·ṭaḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4315: The best part

of the sheep
הַצֹּאן֩ (haṣ·ṣōn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

and cattle,
וְהַבָּקָ֨ר (wə·hab·bā·qār)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

the fat calves
וְהַמִּשְׁנִ֤ים (wə·ham·miš·nîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4932: A repetition, a duplicate, a double, a second

and
וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

lambs,
הַכָּרִים֙ (hak·kā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3733: A ram, a, battering-ram, a meadow, a pad, camel's saddle

and
וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the best
הַטּ֔וֹב (haṭ·ṭō·wḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

of everything else.
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

They were unwilling
אָב֖וּ (’ā·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 14: To breathe after, to be acquiescent

to destroy them,
הַחֲרִימָ֑ם (ha·ḥă·rî·mām)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses, to be blunt as to the nose

but they utterly destroyed
הֶחֱרִֽימוּ׃ (he·ḥĕ·rî·mū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses, to be blunt as to the nose

all
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

that was despised
נְמִבְזָ֥ה (nə·miḇ·zāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 959: To disesteem

and worthless.
וְנָמֵ֖ס (wə·nā·mês)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4549: To liquefy, to waste, to faint

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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