Study it in the app“Now therefore, proclaim, please, in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him turn back and withdraw from Mount Gilead.’” Twenty-two thousand of the people turned back, and ten thousand remained.”
Now therefore,וְעַתָּהproclaim,קְרָאplease,נָאin the earsבְּאָזְנֵיof the people,הָעָםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Whoeverמִיis afraidיָרֵאand trembling,וְחָרֵדlet him turn backיָשֹׁבand withdrawוְיִצְפֹּרfrom MountמֵהַרGilead.’”הַגִּלְעָדTwenty-twoעֶשְׂרִים וּשְׁנַיִםthousandאֶלֶףofמִןthe peopleהָעָםturned back,וַיָּשָׁבand tenעֲשֶׂרֶתthousandאֲלָפִיםremained.וַ נִשְׁאָרוּ
proclaim
To announce aloud.
Where else “kera” appearshearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “azne” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsGod-fearing
Who reveres God and so obeys him.
Where else “yare” appearstrembling, afraid
Trembling with fear, afraid. Elsewhere, one who trembles with reverence at the word of God (Isaiah 66:2).
Where else “chared” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashov” appearsdepart
Depart, go away. The verb appears only here and its exact sense is not certain.
Where else “yitspor” appearsmountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “har” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appearstwenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shenayim” appearsthousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “elef” appearsten
Ten.
Where else “aseret” appearsremain
To remain, what is left.
Where else “nisharu” appears“Withdraw” translates a verb that appears only here; its exact sense is not certain.
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).
2YHWH said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel boast against me, saying, ‘My hand has saved me.’
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4YHWH said to Gideon, “The people are still many. Bring them down to the water, and I will refine them for you there. And it will be that whoever I say to you, ‘This one will go with you,’ he will go with you; and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one will not go with you,’ he will not go.”
