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When the peopleוַ הָעָםwere counted,יִּתְפָּקֵדlook,וְהִנֵּהthere was notאֵיןthereשָׁםa manאִישׁof the inhabitantsמִיּוֹשְׁבֵיof Jabesh-gilead.יָבֵשׁ גִּלְעָד
Judges 21:9
Study it in the app“When the people were counted, look, there was not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 21:9, word by word
- When the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- were countedיִּתְפָּקֵדyitpaked
count
To list a people, how many there are.
Where else “yitpaked” appears- a manאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- of the inhabitantsיּוֹשְׁבֵיyoshve
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appears- of Jabesh-gileadיָבֵשׁyavesh
Jabesh
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” appears- of Jabesh-gileadגִּלְעָדgilad
Gilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appears
Places in this verse
Gilead
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).
The context
8And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to YHWH at Mizpah?” And look, no man had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.
9 · This verse (above)
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.