And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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Then a champion[a] went out from the camps of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 17:4 Literally “a man of the space between”
  2. 1 Samuel 17:4 A cubit was about eighteen inches and a span about nine inches, so the Masoretic Hebrew text gives the height of nine feet, nine inches. Ancient Greek versions variously give Goliath’s height as four, five, or sixteen cubits.