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And this isוְזֶהthe thingהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרyou shall do:תַּעֲשׂוּeveryכָּלmaleזָכָרand everyוְכָלwomanאִשָּׁהwho has knownיֹדַעַתlyingמִשְׁכַּבwith a maleזָכָרyou shall devote to destruction.”תַּחֲרִימוּ
Judges 21:11
Study it in the app“And this is the thing that you shall do: every male and every woman who has known lying with a male you shall devote to destruction.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 21:11, word by word
- the thingדָּבָרdavar
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appears- you shall doתַּעֲשׂוּtaasu
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taasu” appears- maleזָכָרzachar
male
A person of the male sex, man or boy.
Where else “zachar” appears- womanאִשָּׁהisha
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appears- who has knownיֹדַעַתyodaat
lie with
To be intimate with a woman.
Where else “yodaat” appears- lyingמִשְׁכַּבmishkav
lie with
To join someone in the intimacy of a couple.
Where else “mishkav” appears- you shall devote to destructionתַּחֲרִימוּtacharimu
devote to destruction
To give something wholly to YHWH, often by destroying it.
Where else “tacharimu” appears
The context
10So the community sent there twelve thousand men of the men of valor, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
11 · This verse (above)
12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.