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But nowוְעַתָּהthis isזֶהthe thingהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרwe will doנַעֲשֶׂהto Gibeah:לַגִּבְעָהwe will go up against itעָלֶיהָby lot.בְּגוֹרָל
Judges 20:9
Study it in the app“But now this is the thing that we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 20:9, word by word
- the thingדָּבָרdavar
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appears- we will doנַעֲשֶׂהnaase
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “naase” appears- to Gibeahגִּבְעָהgiva
Gibeah
Gibeah: the name of several towns; it means "hill."
Where else “giva” appears- by lotגוֹרָלgoral
lot
Small stones cast to decide something.
Where else “goral” appears
The context
8And all the people arose as one man, saying, “We will not go, any one to his tent, nor will any one turn aside to his house.
9 · This verse (above)
10And we will take ten men of a hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to take provisions for the people, so that they may act, when they come to Geba of Benjamin, according to all the infamy that it has done in Israel.”