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They toldוַיַּגִּדוּSiseraלְסִיסְרָאthatכִּיBarakבָּרָקsonבֶּןof Abinoamאֲבִינֹעַםhad gone upעָלָהto MountהַרTabor.תָּבוֹר
Judges 4:12
Study it in the app“They told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 4:12, word by word
- They toldיַּגִּדוּyagidu
tell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “yagidu” appears- Siseraסִיסְרָאsisra
Sisera
Sisera, commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king of Hazor. Later another person bears the same name (Ezra 2:53).
Where else “sisra” appears- Barakבָּרָקbarak
Barak
Barak, son of Abinoam, of the tribe of Naphtali; he led the army of Israel against Sisera. The name means "lightning."
Where else “barak” appears- sonבֶּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- of Abinoamאֲבִינֹעַםavinoam
Abinoam
Abinoam, the father of Barak. The name means "father of pleasantness" or "my father is pleasant."
Where else “avinoam” appears- had gone upעָלָהala
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “ala” appears- to Mountהַרhar
mountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appears- Taborתָּבוֹרtavor
Tabor
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Places in this verse
Tabor
Today: Mount Tabor, Lower Galilee, Israel
An isolated mountain in northern Israel at the edge of the Jezreel Valley, about 11 miles (17 km) west of the Sea of Galilee.
Barak gathered ten thousand men there and, with Deborah, defeated Sisera (Judg 4:6, 14).
The context
11Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
12 · This verse (above)
13Sisera summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the brook Kishon.