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He said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Go.”לֵכִיAnd he sent her awayוַיִּשְׁלַח אוֹתָהּfor twoשְׁנֵיmonths;חֳדָשִׁיםand sheהִיאwent,וַתֵּלֶךְwith her companions,וְרֵעוֹתֶיהָand weptוַתֵּבְךְּforעַלher virginityבְּתוּלֶיהָonעַלthe mountains.הֶהָרִים
Judges 11:38
Study it in the app“He said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went, with her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 11:38, word by word
- He saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “Goלֵכִיlechi
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechi” appears- And he sent her awayיִּשְׁלַחyishlach
send away
To send away, or divorce one's wife.
Where else “yishlach” appears- for twoשְׁנֵיshene
two
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shene” appears- monthsחֳדָשִׁיםchodashim
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodashim” appears- with her companionsרֵעוֹתֶיreote
companion (female)
Female companion, friend.
Where else “reote” appears- and weptתֵּבְךְּtevk
weep
Weep, cry; mourn for someone.
Where else “tevk” appears- her virginityבְּתוּלֶיbetule
virginity
Never having been with a man.
Where else “betule” appears- the mountainsהָרִיםharim
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appears
The context
37And 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.”
38 · This verse (above)
39At the end of two months she returned to her father, and he did with her his vow that he had vowed; and she had not known a man. And it became a statute in Israel: