1 Samuel 25:4
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And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

did shear

Genesis 38:13 And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.

2 Samuel 13:23 And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons:

Context
David, Nabal, and Abigail
3Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb. 4And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing his sheep,5He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:3
Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:5
He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace.

Lexicon
While David
דָּוִ֖ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

was in the wilderness,
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

he heard
וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע (way·yiš·ma‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8085: To hear intelligently

that
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

Nabal
נָבָ֖ל (nā·ḇāl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5037: Nabal -- a man of Carmel

was shearing
גֹזֵ֥ז (ḡō·zêz)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1494: To cut off, to shear a, flock, shave the hair, to destroy an enemy

sheep.
צֹאנֽוֹ׃ (ṣō·nōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock


Additional Translations
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal the Carmelite was shearing his sheep.

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

And David heareth in the wilderness that Nabal is shearing his flock,
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