Study it in the app“And she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, so that I may go and go down upon the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.””
And she saidוַתֹּאמֶרtoאֶלher father,אָבִיהָ“Let thisהַזֶּהthingהַדָּבָרbe doneיֵעָשֶׂהfor me:לִּיleave me aloneהַרְפֵּה מִמֶּנִּיtwoשְׁנַיִםmonths,חֳדָשִׁיםso that I may goוְאֵלְכָהand go downוְיָרַדְתִּיuponעַלthe mountainsהֶהָרִיםand weepוְאֶבְכֶּהforעַלmy virginity,בְּתוּלַיIאָנֹכִיand my companions.”וְרֵעוֹתָי
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearsthing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “yease” appearslet go
To let go, leave: "let me go".
Where else “harpe” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shenayim” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodashim” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “elcha” appearsgo down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “yaradti” appearsmountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appearsweep
Weep, cry; mourn for someone.
Where else “evke” appearsvirginity
Never having been with a man.
Where else “betula” appearscompanion (female)
Female companion, friend.
Where else “reota” appears36She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to YHWH; do to me according to what came out of your mouth, now that YHWH has done for you vengeance on your enemies, on the sons of Ammon.”
37 · This verse (above)
38He said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went, with her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.
