Study it in the app“When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they turned toward the multitude, and look, they were corpses fallen to the ground, and there was no escape.”
When Judahוִיהוּדָהcameבָּאtoעַלthe watchtowerהַמִּצְפֶּהof the wilderness,לַמִּדְבָּרthey turnedוַיִּפְנוּtowardאֶלthe multitude,הֶהָמוֹןand look,וְהִנָּthey wereםcorpsesפְּגָרִיםfallenנֹפְלִיםto the ground,אַרְצָהand there was noוְאֵיןescape.פְּלֵיטָה
Judah
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 “yhuda” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appearswatchtower
Watchtower: a high place from which one keeps watch and sees far.
Where else “mitspe” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearsturn
To turn toward something, someone or God.
Where else “yifnu” appearsmultitude
Many people gathered, or a great number of something, like an army.
Where else “hamon” appearscarcass, corpse
Dead body, carcass, of a person or an animal.
Where else “pegarim” appearsfall
To fall to the ground, or for a city to fall.
Where else “noflim” appearsground
What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.
Where else “artsa” appearsescape
Managing to get out of danger: the escape.
Where else “peleta” appears23The sons of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, to devote them to destruction and to destroy them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped each to destroy his fellow.
24 · This verse (above)
25Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder their spoil, and they found among them in abundance goods and corpses and precious objects, and they stripped them for themselves until they could carry no more; and they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.
