Study it in the app“Gideon said to them, “Let me ask of you a request: give me each man an earring from his spoil.” For they had earrings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.”
Gideonגִּדְעוֹןsaid to them,וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵהֶם“Let me askאֶשְׁאֲלָהof youמִכֶּםa request:שְׁאֵלָהgiveוּתְנוּmeלִיeach manאִישׁan earringנֶזֶםfrom his spoil.”שְׁלָלוֹForכִּיthey hadלָהֶםearringsנִזְמֵיof gold,זָהָבbecauseכִּיtheyהֵםwere Ishmaelites.יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים
Gideon
Gideon, son of Joash, of the tribe of Manasseh; a judge who saved Israel from Midian. The name means "one who cuts down." He is also called Jerubbaal.
Where else “gidon” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsask for
To ask for something, or borrow.
Where else “eshala” appearsrequest
Request: what one asks of another.
Where else “sheela” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tenu” appearseach
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appearsring, earring
Ring worn in the nose or the ear as an ornament.
Where else “nezem” appearsspoil, plunder
Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.
Where else “shelal” appearsgold
Gold.
Where else “zahav” appearsIshmaelite
Ishmaelite: a descendant of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar.
Where else “yishmelim” appears“They had” refers to the defeated. “Ishmaelites” is used here for the nomadic peoples of the east, like Midian (compare Genesis 37:25-28).
23Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; YHWH will rule over you.”
24 · This verse (above)
25They said, “We will certainly give them.” They spread out the cloak, and each man threw there an earring from his spoil.
