{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-11-01T16:21:41Z", "language": "en", "book": "1-samuel-woh", "chapter": 3 }, "data": { "n": 3, "bookSlug": "1-samuel-woh", "bookCode": "1SA-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "1 Samuel 3 — YHWH calls Shemu'el (Samuel)", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Hebrew Masoretic text (Westminster Leningrad Codex base, Public Domain) — Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/I_Samuel.3","sourceAccessedVia":"Sefaria v3 API","glossaryVersion":"2.90.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.0.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-5-5 (translator)","claude-opus-5-5 (editor)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T17:00:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-5-5 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T14:36:44Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:1","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. yāqār (\"rare\", 1 Sam 3:1)","McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc.","BDB s.v. pāraṣ (Niphal)"],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: ûḏəḇar-YHWH hāyâ yāqār bayyāmîm hāhēm ʾên ḥāzôn nip̄rāṣ. 'rare ... no widespread vision' (changed from ASV 'precious ... no frequent vision') is the lexical sense HALOT gives for this verse and the modern consensus (McCarter; NRSV, NJPS). Not lens-motivated."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:2","status":"approve","citations":["Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (3rd ed., 2012), on Ketiv/Qere"],"reasoning":"Ketiv wʿynw 'his eye' / Qere wəʿênāyw 'his eyes', Qere translated. bayyôm hahûʾ 'at that time' (ASV) is idiomatic. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wənēr ʾĕlōhîm ṭerem yiḵbeh ... bəhêḵal YHWH ʾăšer-šām ʾărôn ʾĕlōhîm: two anarthrous genitives rendered without article (clause 2); hêḵāl 'temple'. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:4","status":"approve","citations":["McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc."],"reasoning":"wayyiqrāʾ YHWH ʾel-šəmûʾēl: single call in the MT (LXX doubled, McCarter adopts it), MT kept. hinnēnî 'Here am I'. Correct."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"hinnənî kî-qārāʾṯā llî ... lōʾ-qārāʾṯî šûḇ šəḵāḇ: exact. Non-blocking: the note transliterates the form as *hinnəḵî*; the source has הִנְנִי, read *hinnənî*."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyōsep̄ YHWH qərōʾ ʿôḏ šəmûʾēl ... bənî: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ṭerem yāḏaʿ ʾeṯ-YHWH wəṭerem yiggāleh ʾēlāyw dəḇar-YHWH: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"bašəlîšîṯ ... wayyāḇen ʿēlî kî YHWH qōrēʾ lannāʿar: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"lēḵ šəḵāḇ wəhāyâ ʾim-yiqrāʾ ʾēleyḵā wəʾāmartā dabbēr YHWH kî šōmēaʿ ʿaḇdeḵā: literal; participle 'is listening'. Reception note accurately reports TBWTT ch. 3."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:10","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. yāṣaḇ (Hithpael)","McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: wayyāḇōʾ YHWH wayyiṯyaṣṣaḇ wayyiqrāʾ kəp̄aʿam-bəp̄aʿam šəmûʾēl šəmûʾēl. 'came and stood' is the ASV-literal rendering of a bold Hebrew anthropomorphism; neither softened nor heightened. The note points to hammarʾâ (v 15). Reception note (telepathy, radio-amateur analogy) accurately reports TBWTT ch. 3 and is confined to apparatus."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"hinnê ʾānōḵî ʿōśeh ḏāḇār ... tiṣṣillênâ šəttê ʾozənāyw: participle of imminent future 'I am about to do'. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ʾāqîm ʾel-ʿēlî ... hāḥēl wəḵallēh 'from beginning to end'. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:13","status":"approve","citations":["McCarthy, The Tiqqune Sopherim (OBO 36; 1981)","McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc."],"reasoning":"kî-məqalləlîm lāhem bānāyw: MT translated ('bringing a curse on themselves'); the tiqqun soferim and LXX 'speaking evil of God' are accurately reported. wəlōʾ kihâ bām 'did not restrain them'. Correct under the MT-baseline rule."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:14","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §149 (ʾim in oaths)"],"reasoning":"ʾim-yiṯkappēr ... ʿaḏ-ʿôlām: oath ʾim = negative, 'shall not be atoned for'. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyiškaḇ šəmûʾēl ʿaḏ-habbōqer wayyip̄taḥ ʾeṯ-daltôṯ bêṯ-YHWH ... mēhaggîḏ ʾeṯ-hammarʾâ: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"šəmûʾēl bənî ... hinnēnî: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:17","status":"approve","citations":["1 Sam 14:44; 2 Sam 3:9 (MT; same oath with singular verb)"],"reasoning":"kōh yaʿăśeh-lləḵā ʾĕlōhîm wəḵōh yôsîp̄: singular verbs, anarthrous; 'So may Elohim do to you, and more also' matches the ratified 1 Kgs 2:23 rendering. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"YHWH hûʾ haṭṭôḇ bəʿênāw yaʿăśeh: exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wəlōʾ-hippîl mikkol-dəḇārāyw ʾārṣâ 'let none of his words fall to the ground'. Exact; the `eretz` citation was rightly removed ('ground')."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"middān wəʿaḏ-bəʾēr šāḇaʿ ... neʾĕmān ... lənāḇîʾ laYHWH 'established as a prophet'. Exact."},{"refId":"1SA-WOH-3:21","status":"approve","citations":["McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc."],"reasoning":"wayyōsep̄ YHWH ləhērāʾōh bəšilōh kî-niḡlâ YHWH ... bidḇar YHWH: exact; the LXX plus at 3:21-4:1 is reported and not translated."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"hebrew-proper-name-transliteration-convention-former-prophets","status":"flag-for-human","citations":["1-kings-woh hebrew-proper-name-transliteration-convention-kings (ratified 2026-11-01)","genesis-woh / exodus-woh / 1-kings-woh gentilic practice (checked in the data)"],"reasoning":"Verified identical in all three overlays and identical in substance to the ratified Kings entry (long forms, tz, apostrophes, '-ite' gentilics, English chapter-title forms, which all nine titles carry). Every equivalence in the table was checked against the MT names in these chapters. Flagged only for founder point 2 (gentilics across the corpus, esp. 'the Pelishtite' beside central 'the Pelishtim'); the entry itself is philologically sound and claim_type direct is right for a presentation convention."},{"glossary_id":"elohim-referent-and-article-conventions-former-prophets","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾĕlōhîm","1-kings-woh elohim-referent-and-article-conventions-kings (ratified text)","central elohim-as-translation (\"the Elohim (with article in narrative)\")"],"reasoning":"Clauses 1-5 reproduce the ratified Kings clauses. Clause 6 (Judg 6:40) applies the ratified text exactly: the Kings entry says 'the narrative-subject article rule of the central entry is unaffected', and the central rule is 'the Elohim' in narrative. Clause 7 (1 Sam 17:26, 36) supplies a determiner English grammar requires and records the anarthrous Hebrew. Every listed site was checked against the source. Non-blocking: cite Deut 5:23 [ET 5:26] (Hebrew numbering) in clause 7's rationale. Founder point 3: recommend confirm."},{"glossary_id":"ketiv-qere-qere-translated-former-prophets","status":"revise","citations":["Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (3rd ed., 2012), on Ketiv/Qere","MT Judg 6:5 (Ketiv יבאו)"],"reasoning":"Rule and inventory verified: the source marks exactly 15 Ketiv/Qere readings in 15 verses, and all 15 are translated as Qere with the Ketiv recorded; the three ASV-Ketiv sites (Josh 5:1; 6:7; Judg 13:17) are correctly identified. One factual fix: the Judg 6:5 Ketiv is written *yʾbw*; the consonants of יבאו are *ybʾw* (imperfect yāḇōʾû). Correct the entry in all three overlays and the JDG-WOH-6:5 note."},{"glossary_id":"mt-baseline-at-versional-cruxes-former-prophets","status":"approve","citations":["Nelson, Joshua (OTL; 1997), ad loc.","McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc.","Barthélemy, Gooding, Lust and Tov, The Story of David and Goliath (OBO 73; 1986)"],"reasoning":"Same rule as Kings; each listed versional reading was checked (Josh 5:14 LXX/Syr lô; 6:18 LXX 'covet'; 6:26 LXX plus; 10:13 LXX minus; 10:15, 43; Judg 6:7-10 4QJudgᵃ; 6:14 LXX; 13:19 LXX; 1 Sam 3:13 tiqqun; 5:4, 5:6, 6:19, 17:4, 17:12, 17:32, 17:52) and is accurately reported. The 1 Sam 6:18 exception is rightly carved out to its own entry."},{"glossary_id":"yaqar-chazon-nifratz-word-rare-vision-1-samuel-3-1","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. yāqār","McCarter, I Samuel (AB 8; 1980), ad loc.","Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC 10; 1983), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Lexica and modern consensus; Prov 25:17 and 2 Chr 31:5 parallels are apt. Direct."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:version 2.83.0->2.84.0","status":"revise","citations":["exodus-woh/wave-t1-central-diff.json (parallel Torah diff, checked)"],"reasoning":"Minor version is consistent with house practice. Correct one claim in the note: the parallel Torah diff also modifies hishtachavah-bow-down-obeisance-worship (wohChoice and rationale), so sequential application of two full-field replacements would drop one clause. See the hishtachavah op."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:aron-ark-of-the-covenant-ark-of-the-elohim-cross-corpus (add)","status":"approve","citations":["Seow, \"Ark of the Covenant\", ABD I (1992)","Miller and Roberts, The Hand of the Lord (1977)","Campbell, The Ark Narrative (1975)"],"reasoning":"Direct and lexically sound; each Hebrew genitive is kept and reception is confined to notes; appliesTo verified against the chapters. Overlap flagged for merging: exodus-woh chapter-25 (editor-review, parallel Torah wave) renders ʾărôn 'ark' at EXO-WOH-25:10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 under its overlay tabernacle-furnishings-vocabulary-exodus-25, and the Torah diff creates no ʾărôn entry. The orchestrator should add those six refIds to this central entry when merging, and point the Exodus overlay's 'ark' item to it, so there is one ʾărôn id."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:appliesTo extensions (43 ids)","status":"approve","citations":["wave chapters and v2.83.0 base (scripted cross-check)"],"reasoning":"Scripted check: every central id cited in the nine chapters has its refId in the post-diff appliesTo; no op drops a v2.83.0 refId; each appliesToAdded equals the actual set difference; no FP refId is listed without a matching glossaryRef."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:eretz (appliesTo) and removed citations","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾereṣ"],"reasoning":"Additions limited to 'land' sites (13). The 10 removals of eretz where ʾereṣ/ʾarṣâ is 'ground' or 'earth' (Josh 5:14; Judg 6:37, 39, 40; 13:20; 1 Sam 3:19; 5:3, 4; 17:46, 49) and the removal of the Gen 25:34-specific va-yivez-esav citation at 1 Sam 17:42 are correct. Leftover: the JDG-WOH-6:37 note still cites `eretz`."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"lensLeakageCheck":"Checked all 21 lines. 3:9-10 render the call and Eli's instruction literally; 'YHWH came and stood' is the ASV rendering of the Hebrew anthropomorphism. The telepathy and radio-amateur reading is confined to the reception notes at 3:9-10. 'rare ... widespread' (3:1) is lexical.","ketivQereInventory":["1SA-WOH-3:2 K wʿynw / Q wəʿênāyw"],"nonBlockingFixes":["1SA-WOH-3:5 note: *hinnəḵî* -> *hinnənî* (source הִנְנִי)."],"escalationReportAdjustments":"Initial verdicts on all 262 verses, the overlay entries and the 50 central-diff ops were formed from the chapters, sources, overlays and diff before opening wave-fp1-editor-report.md. After reading it, no verdict changed. The report confirms it did not check the shofar Exodus refIds (the reviewer did: EXO-WOH-20:15, not 20:18) and names the ark collision risk (the reviewer checked exodus-woh chapter-25 and the Torah diff: no ʾărôn entry exists there; six Ex 25 refIds should join the central entry). The report's note that the Torah diff touches no entry this diff modifies is contradicted by the data (hishtachavah), which strengthens the revise on that op. The report's statement that NJPS follows 'stone' at 1 Sam 6:18 was not verifiable from the shelf and is not relied on.","founderDecisionRecommendations":{"1-1Sam-6:18-great-stone":"Ship. ʾāḇēl cannot be construed (two failed agreements, contradiction with vv 14-15); ʾeḇen with LXX, Targum and some Hebrew MSS is the standard correction (Driver 1913; McCarter 1980). Ratify the exception exactly as narrowly worded (MT grammatically impossible + Hebrew-manuscript reading supported by the versions).","2-gentilics":"Keep the Kings '-ite' rule in the Former Prophets now (option c); it maps one-to-one to the ASV and is already ratified for Kings. For the later corpus pass, the reviewer prefers (a) '-ite' throughout, with the central pelishtim-caphtor plural becoming 'the Pelishtites', because 'the Pelishtite' beside 'the Pelishtim' is the one jarring pair. No philological issue either way; it is a presentation choice.","3-Judg-6:40-the-Elohim":"Confirm. The ratified Kings text explicitly leaves the central narrative-subject rule ('the Elohim') in force and limits the article-less form to predicates, genitives and direct-speech subjects; the brief's paraphrase was inaccurate. Clause 6 applies the ratified text exactly.","4-Judg-6:34-clothed":"Ship. lāḇəšâ is literally 'clothed' (BDB; same idiom 1 Chr 12:19; 2 Chr 24:20; Block), and keeping Judges' four verbs distinct is a gain in accuracy.","5-herem":"Ship. 'devote(d) to destruction' is the standard modern rendering (NRSV; HALOT) and the only consistent one; it makes the Josh 6 / Josh 10 connection visible without moral editorializing.","6-shofar-promotion":"Approve the promotion after the refId fix (EXO-WOH-20:15 for 20:18; optionally add EXO-WOH-19:13). Retire the 1-kings-woh shofar entry to a pointer and let the exodus-woh overlays cite the central id."},"summary":"21 verdicts: 21 approve, 0 revise, 0 flag-for-human. Glossary/op reviews: 6 approve, 2 revise, 1 flag-for-human. No lens-leakage flags. Status awaiting-human because of wave-level glossary revises (ketiv-qere overlay; central version note, shofar refIds, hishtachavah merge) and flags (proper-name convention, founder point 2; even-ha-gedolah, founder point 1)."}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:1", "text": "And the boy Shemu'el was ministering to YHWH before Eli. And the word of YHWH was rare in those days; there was no widespread vision." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:2", "text": "And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was lying down in his place — now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see —" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:3", "text": "and the lamp of Elohim had not yet gone out, and Shemu'el was lying down in the temple of YHWH, where the ark of Elohim was," },{ "n": 4, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:4", "text": "that YHWH called Shemu'el; and he said, \"Here am I.\"" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:5", "text": "And he ran to Eli and said, \"Here am I, for you called me.\" And he said, \"I did not call; lie down again.\" And he went and lay down." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:6", "text": "And YHWH called yet again, \"Shemu'el!\" And Shemu'el arose and went to Eli and said, \"Here am I, for you called me.\" And he said, \"I did not call, my son; lie down again.\"" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:7", "text": "Now Shemu'el did not yet know YHWH, and the word of YHWH had not yet been revealed to him." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:8", "text": "And YHWH called Shemu'el again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, \"Here am I, for you called me.\" And Eli perceived that YHWH was calling the boy." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:9", "text": "Therefore Eli said to Shemu'el, \"Go, lie down; and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, YHWH, for your servant is listening.'\" So Shemu'el went and lay down in his place." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:10", "text": "And YHWH came and stood, and called as at the other times, \"Shemu'el, Shemu'el!\" Then Shemu'el said, \"Speak, for your servant is listening.\"" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:11", "text": "And YHWH said to Shemu'el, \"Behold, I am about to do a thing in Yisra'el at which both ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:12", "text": "On that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:13", "text": "For I have told him that I am judging his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons were bringing a curse on themselves, and he did not restrain them." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:14", "text": "And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or meal-offering forever.\"" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:15", "text": "And Shemu'el lay until the morning; and he opened the doors of the house of YHWH. And Shemu'el was afraid to tell Eli the vision." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:16", "text": "Then Eli called Shemu'el and said, \"Shemu'el, my son.\" And he said, \"Here am I.\"" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:17", "text": "And he said, \"What is the word that he spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. So may Elohim do to you, and more also, if you hide from me a word of all the word that he spoke to you.\"" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:18", "text": "So Shemu'el told him all the words and hid nothing from him. And he said, \"It is YHWH; let him do what is good in his eyes.\"" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:19", "text": "And Shemu'el grew, and YHWH was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:20", "text": "And all Yisra'el from Dan to Be'er Sheva knew that Shemu'el was established as a prophet of YHWH." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "1SA-WOH-3:21", "text": "And YHWH appeared again in Shiloh, for YHWH revealed himself to Shemu'el in Shiloh by the word of YHWH." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/1-samuel-woh/chapters/3", "book": "/v1/library/books/1-samuel-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/1-samuel-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }