Study it in the app“Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the crag of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.””
Then threeוַ שְׁלֹשֶׁתthousandאֲלָפִיםmenאִישׁfrom Judahמִיהוּדָהwent downיֵּרְדוּtoאֶלthe cleftסְעִיףof the cragסֶלַעof Etamעֵיטָםand saidוַיֹּאמְרוּto Samson,לְשִׁמְשׁוֹן“Do you notהֲלֹאknowיָדַעְתָּthatכִּיthe Philistinesפְּלִשְׁתִּיםruleמֹשְׁלִיםover us?בָּנוּWhatוּמַהis thisזֹּאתyou have doneעָשִׂיתָto us?”לָּנוּAnd he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto them,לָהֶם“Asכַּאֲשֶׁרthey didעָשׂוּto me,לִיsoכֵּןI have doneעָשִׂיתִיto them.”לָהֶם
three
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “sheloshet” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alafim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” 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 “yhuda” appearsgo down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “yerdu” appearscleft
A crack in a rock.
Where else “seif” appearscrag
A great mountain stone, a place of refuge.
Where else “sela” appearsEtam
Etam, a place in Judah with a rock where Samson took refuge; also a town of Judah fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:6).
Where else “etam” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearsSamson
Samson, son of Manoah, a Nazirite from birth and judge of Israel for twenty years. The name comes from the word for "sun."
Where else “shimshon” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yadata” 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” appearsrule
To hold sway over something or someone.
Where else “moshlim” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asita” appears10And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he did to us.”
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12And they said to him, “To bind you we have come down, to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me.”
