Study it in the app“They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow you will have salvation, when the sun is hot.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.”
They saidוַיֹּאמְרוּto the messengersלַמַּלְאָכִיםwho had come,הַבָּאִים“Thusכֹּהyou shall sayתֹאמְרוּןto the menלְאִישׁof Jabesh-gilead:יָבֵישׁ גִּלְעָד‘Tomorrowמָחָרyou will haveתִּהְיֶה לָכֶםsalvation,תְּשׁוּעָהwhenכְּthe sunהַשָּׁמֶשׁis hot.’”חֹםThe messengersהַמַּלְאָכִיםcameוַיָּבֹאוּand toldוַיַּגִּידוּthe menלְאַנְשֵׁיof Jabesh,יָבֵישׁand they rejoiced.וַיִּשְׂמָחוּ
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsmessenger
Someone sent on an errand.
Where else “malachim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsJabesh
Jabesh, a city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. Later King Saul delivered it from the sons of Ammon (1 Samuel 11). It is also the name of a man, the father of King Shallum (2 Kings 15:10).
Where else “yavesh” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appearstomorrow
The day that comes after today.
Where else “machar” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “tihye” appearsdeliverance
When YHWH rescues.
Where else “teshua” appearssun
The star that gives light and heat by day and marks the day and the year; "under the sun" means in this world.
Where else “shamesh” appearsheat
Heat.
Where else “chom” appearstell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “yagidu” appearsrejoice
To feel glad and show it, above all at the feast before YHWH.
Where else “yismachu” appearsGilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
8He counted them at Bezek, and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
9 · This verse (above)
10The men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us according to all that is good in your eyes.”
