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They stood,וַיַּעַמְדוּeachאִישׁin his place,תַּחְתָּיוall aroundסָבִיבthe camp,לַמַּחֲנֶהand allכָּלthe campהַמַּחֲנֶהran;וַיָּרָץand they shoutedוַיָּרִיעוּand fled.וַיָּנוּסוּ
Judges 7:21
Study it in the app“They stood, each in his place, all around the camp, and all the camp ran; and they shouted and fled.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 7:21, word by word
- They stoodיַּעַמְדוּyaamdu
stand
To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
Where else “yaamdu” appears- eachאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- all aroundסָבִיבsaviv
around
In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.
Where else “saviv” appears- the campמַּחֲנֶהmachane
camp
A place where a group settles to live temporarily, with order and limits.
Where else “machane” appears- ranיָּרָץyarats
run
To move quickly on foot, at a run.
Where else “yarats” appears- and they shoutedיָּרִיעוּyariu
shout, sound an alarm
Make a loud sound: shout for joy or in alarm, acclaim, sound the signal with the trumpet.
Where else “yariu” appears- and fledיָּנוּסוּyanusu
flee
To run off to get away from a danger or an enemy.
Where else “yanusu” appears
Translation note
“Shouted” is the verb that elsewhere is translated “acclaim” (Joshua 6:20). The Hebrew does not say who shouts: it may be those of Midian as they fled, or Gideon’s men.
The context
20The three companies blew the horns and broke the jars; they held in their left hand the torches, and in their right hand the horns to blow, and they called out, “A sword for YHWH and for Gideon!”
21 · This verse (above)
22They blew the three hundred horns, and YHWH set the sword of each against his companion, throughout all the camp; and the camp fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.