1 Samuel 25:11
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”

Young's Literal Translation
and I have taken my bread, and my water, and my flesh, which I slaughtered for my shearers, and have given [it] to men whom I have not known whence they [are]!’

King James Bible
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I know not whence they [be]?

Hebrew
Why should I take
וְלָקַחְתִּ֤י (wə·lā·qaḥ·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3947: To take

my bread
לַחְמִי֙ (laḥ·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

water
מֵימַ֔י (mê·may)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and the meat
טִבְחָתִ֔י (ṭiḇ·ḥā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2878: Thing slaughtered, slaughtered meat, slaughter

I have slaughtered
טָבַ֖חְתִּי (ṭā·ḇaḥ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2873: To slaughter, butcher, slay

for my shearers,
לְגֹֽזְזָ֑י (lə·ḡō·zə·zāy)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1494: To cut off, to shear a, flock, shave the hair, to destroy an enemy

and give
וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

them to these men
לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים (la·’ă·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

whose origin
אֵ֥י (’ê)
Interrogative
Strong's 335: Where?, how?

I do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

know?”
יָדַ֔עְתִּי (yā·ḏa‘·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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