1 Samuel 15:5
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And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.

laid wait.

Context
Saul's Disobedience
4So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda. 5And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.6And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:4
So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

1 Samuel 15:6
And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.

Lexicon
Saul
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

came
וַיָּבֹ֥א (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the city
עִ֣יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

of Amalek
עֲמָלֵ֑ק (‘ă·mā·lêq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6002: Amalek -- a descendant of Esau, also his posterity

and lay in wait
וַיָּ֖רֶב (way·yā·reḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend

in the valley.
בַּנָּֽחַל׃ (ban·nā·ḥal)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft


Additional Translations
Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

And Saul came to the cities of Amalec, and laid wait in the valley.

And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.

And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

And Saul cometh in unto a city of Amalek, and layeth wait in a valley;
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