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The sonsבְנֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלdidוַיַּעֲשׂוּwhat was evilאֶת הָרַעin the eyesבְּעֵינֵיof YHWHיְהוָהand servedוַיַּעַבְדוּthe Baals.אֶת הַבְּעָלִים
Judges 2:11
Study it in the app“The sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH and served the Baals.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 2:11, word by word
- The sonsבְנֵיvene
descendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “vene” appears- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- didיַּעֲשׂוּyaasu
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “yaasu” appears- what was evilרַעra
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “ra” appears- in the eyesעֵינֵיene
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- and servedיַּעַבְדוּyaavdu
worship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “yaavdu” appears- the Baalsבְּעָלִיםbealim
Baal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “bealim” appears
Translation note
“Baal” means “lord, owner”; it was the name of the Canaanite god of rain and harvests. “The Baals,” in the plural, can be understood as his images or his forms in each place.
The context
10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not know YHWH, nor even the work that he had done for Israel.
11 · This verse (above)
12They abandoned YHWH, the Elohim of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods, from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them and provoked YHWH to anger.