Study it in the app“And 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.”
And they foundוַיִּמְצְאוּamong the inhabitantsמִיּוֹשְׁבֵיof Jabesh-gileadיָבֵישׁ גִּלְעָדfourאַרְבַּעhundredמֵאוֹתyoung women,נַעֲרָהvirgins,בְתוּלָהwhoאֲשֶׁרhad notלֹאknownיָדְעָהa manאִישׁby lyingלְמִשְׁכַּבwith a male;זָכָרand they broughtוַיָּבִיאוּthemאוֹתָםtoאֶלthe campהַמַּחֲנֶהat Shiloh,שִׁלֹהwhichאֲשֶׁרis in the landבְּאֶרֶץof Canaan.כְּנָעַן
find
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “yimtsu” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appearsJabesh
Jabesh, a city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. Later King Saul delivered it from the sons of Ammon (1 Samuel 11). It is also the name of a man, the father of King Shallum (2 Kings 15:10).
Where else “yavesh” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arba” appearshundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meot” appearsgirl
An unmarried female of marrying age.
Where else “naara” appearsvirgin
Young woman not yet married; virgin.
Where else “vetula” appearslie with
To be intimate with a woman.
Where else “yada” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearslie with
To join someone in the intimacy of a couple.
Where else “mishkav” appearsmale
A person of the male sex, man or boy.
Where else “zachar” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “yaviu” appearscamp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appearsShiloh
See it on the mapWhere else “shilo” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appears1Gilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
2Shiloh
Today: Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh), West Bank
A town in the hills of Ephraim, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Jerusalem.
The tabernacle stood there in the days of Joshua and Eli (Josh 18:1; 1 Sam 1:3). Hannah prayed there, and Samuel was born (1 Sam 1:9-20).
3Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
11And 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.”
12 · This verse (above)
13And the whole community sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the crag of Rimmon, and proclaimed to them peace.
