1 Samuel 27:8
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Young's Literal Translation
and David goeth up and his men, and they push unto the Geshurite, and the Gerizite, and the Amalekite, (for they are inhabitants of the land from of old), as thou comest in to Shur and unto the land of Egypt,

King James Bible
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

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

and his men
וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו (wa·’ă·nā·šāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

went up
וַיַּ֤עַל (way·ya·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and raided
וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֛וּ (way·yip̄·šə·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

the Geshurites,
הַגְּשׁוּרִ֥י (hag·gə·šū·rî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1651: Geshurites -- inhabitants of Geshur, also a people South of Philistia

the Girzites,
וְהַגִּזְרִ֖י (wə·hag·giz·rî)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1511: Gezrites -- a Grizite

and the Amalekites.
וְהָעֲמָלֵקִ֑י (wə·hā·‘ă·mā·lê·qî)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6003: Amalekites -- descendants of Amalek

(From
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

ancient times
מֵֽעוֹלָ֔ם (mê·‘ō·w·lām)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

these people
הֵ֜נָּה (hên·nāh)
Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's 2007: Themselves

had inhabited
יֹשְׁב֤וֹת (yō·šə·ḇō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

the land
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

extending to Shur
שׁ֖וּרָה (šū·rāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7793: Shur -- a desert region Southwest of Palestine on eastern border of Egypt

and
וְעַד־ (wə·‘aḏ-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Egypt.)
מִצְרָֽיִם׃ (miṣ·rā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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