Study it in the app“He brought him down, and look, they were spread out over the face of all the land, eating and drinking and celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.”
He brought him down,וַיֹּרִדֵהוּand look,וְהִנֵּהthey were spread outנְטֻשִׁיםoverעַלthe faceפְּנֵיof allכָלthe land,הָאָרֶץeatingאֹכְלִיםand drinkingוְשֹׁתִיםand celebratingוְחֹגְגִיםbecause of allבְּכֹלthe greatהַגָּדוֹלspoilהַשָּׁלָלthatאֲשֶׁרthey had takenלָקְחוּfrom the landמֵאֶרֶץof the Philistinesפְּלִשְׁתִּיםand from the landוּמֵאֶרֶץof Judah.יְהוּדָה
bring down
To bring something or someone to a lower place.
Where else “yoride” appearsspread out
For an army to spread out over a place, occupying it.
Where else “netushim” appearssurface
The surface: "the face of the earth".
Where else “pene” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearseat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “ochlim” appearsdrink
Drink.
Where else “shotim” appearskeep a festival
To rejoice before YHWH on a holy day.
Where else “choggim” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gadol” appearsspoil, plunder
Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.
Where else “shalal” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “lakchu” appearsPhilistines
Philistines: a people that settled on the south-west coast of Canaan and was Israel's enemy in the days of the judges and of David.
Where else “pelishtim” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appears15David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this band?” He said, “Swear to me by Elohim that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will bring you down to this band.”
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17David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on the camels and fled.
