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1 Samuel 17:4

NETBible	Then a champion¹ came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.²
NIV © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall.
NASB © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	Then a champion came out from the armies of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
NLT © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	Then Goliath, a Philistine champion from Gath, came out of the Philistine ranks to face the forces of Israel. He was a giant of a man, measuring over nine feet tall!
MSG © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	A giant nearly ten feet tall stepped out from the Philistine line into the open, Goliath from Gath.
BBE © SABDAweb 1Sa 17:4	And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
NRSV © bibleoremus 1Sa 17:4	And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
NKJV © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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KJV	And there went out <03318> (8799) a champion <0376> <01143> out of the camp <04264> of the Philistines <06430>_, named <08034> Goliath <01555>_, of Gath <01661>_, whose height <01363> [was] six <08337> cubits <0520> and a span <02239>_.
NASB © biblegateway 1Sa 17:4	Then a champion <0376> <996> came <03318> out from the armies <04264> of the Philistines <06430> named <08034> Goliath <01555> , from Gath <01661> , whose height <01363> was six <08337> cubits <0520> and a span <02239> .
LXXM	kai <2532> CONJ exhlyen <1831> V-AAI-3S anhr <435> N-NSM dunatov <1415> A-NSM ek <1537> PREP thv <3588> T-GSF parataxewv {N-GSF} twn <3588> T-GPM allofulwn <246> N-GPM goliay {N-PRI} onoma <3686> N-NSN autw <846> D-DSM ek <1537> PREP gey {N-PRI} uqov <5311> N-NSN autou <846> D-GSM tessarwn <5064> A-GPM phcewn <4083> A-GPM kai <2532> CONJ spiyamhv {N-GSF}
NET [draft] ITL	Then a champion <01143> <0376> came out <03318> from the camp <04264> of the Philistines <06430> . His name <08034> was Goliath <01555> ; he was from Gath <01661> . He was close to seven feet <02239> <0520> <08337> tall <01363> .
HEBREW	trzw <02239> twma <0520> ss <08337> whbg <01363> tgm <01661> wms <08034> tylg <01555> Mytslp <06430> twnxmm <04264> Mynbh <01143> sya <0376> auyw (17:4) <03318>

NETBible

Then a champion¹ came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.²

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “the man of the space between the two [armies].” See v. 23.

²tc Heb “his height was six cubits and a span” (cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV). A cubit was approximately eighteen inches, a span nine inches. So, according to the Hebrew tradition, Goliath was about nine feet, nine inches tall (cf. NIV, CEV, NLT “over nine feet”; NCV “nine feet, four inches”; TEV “nearly 3 metres”). However, some Greek witnesses, Josephus, and a manuscript of 1 Samuel from Qumran read “four cubits and a span” here, that is, about six feet, nine inches (cf. NAB “six and a half feet”). This seems more reasonable; it is likely that Goliath’s height was exaggerated as the story was retold. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 286, 291.