1 Samuel 2:5
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

Young's Literal Translation
The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

King James Bible
[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

Hebrew
The well-fed
שְׂבֵעִ֤ים (śə·ḇê·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7649: Sated, satisfied, surfeited

hire themselves out
נִשְׂכָּ֔רוּ (niś·kā·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7936: To hire

for food,
בַּלֶּ֙חֶם֙ (bal·le·ḥem)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

but the starving
וּרְעֵבִ֖ים (ū·rə·‘ê·ḇîm)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7457: Hungry

hunger no more.
חָדֵ֑לּוּ (ḥā·ḏêl·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

The barren woman
עֲקָרָה֙ (‘ă·qā·rāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 6135: Sterile

gives birth to
יָלְדָ֣ה (yā·lə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

seven,
שִׁבְעָ֔ה (šiḇ·‘āh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

but she who has many
וְרַבַּ֥ת (wə·rab·baṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

sons
בָּנִ֖ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

pines away.
אֻמְלָֽלָה׃ (’um·lā·lāh)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 535: To droop, to be sick, to mourn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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