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1 Samuel 17:4
King James Version
1 Samuel 17:4
King James Version
4 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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1 Samuel 17:4
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 17:4
Lexham English Bible
4 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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- 1 Samuel 17:4 Literally “a man of the space between”
- 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.
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