KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
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“And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And they said,” | וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ | To say (used with great latitude) | said |
| “What” | מִ֗י | Who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix | What |
| “one” | אֶחָד֙ | Properly, united, i.e., one; or (as an ordinal) first | one |
| “is there” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “of the tribes” | מִשִּׁבְטֵ֣י | A scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan | tribes |
| “of Israel” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “that” | אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc | that |
| “came not up” | עָלָ֥ה | To ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative | came not up |
| “to Mizpeh” | הַמִּצְפָּ֑ה | Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine | Mizpeh |
| “to” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | to |
| “the Lord?” | יְהוָ֖ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “And, behold,” | וְ֠הִנֵּה | Lo! | behold |
| “there came” | בָא | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | came |
| “none” | אִ֧ישׁ | A man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation) | none |
| “to” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | to |
| “the camp” | הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֛ה | An encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts) | camp |
| “from Jabesh-gilead” | מִיָּבֵ֥ישׁ | Jobesh, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine | Jabeshgilead |
| “to” | אֶל | Near, with or among; often in general, to | to |
| “the assembly.” | הַקָּהָֽל׃ | Assemblage (usually concretely) | assembly |
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6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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