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forאֲשֶׁרmy fatherאָבִיfoughtנִלְחַםfor youעֲלֵיכֶםand riskedוַיַּשְׁלֵךְ מִנֶּגֶדhis lifeאֶת נַפְשׁוֹand delivered youוַיַּצֵּל אֶתְכֶםfrom the handמִיַּדof Midian,מִדְיָן
Judges 9:17
Study it in the app“for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Judges 9:17, word by word
- my fatherאָבִavi
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appears- foughtנִלְחַםnilcham
fight
To struggle against an enemy with weapons and give battle; God also fights for his people.
Where else “nilcham” appears- and riskedיַּשְׁלֵךְyashlech
cast away
To cast someone away from oneself, removing him.
Where else “yashlech” appears- and riskedנֶּגֶדneged
in front of
In someone's presence, before his eyes.
Where else “neged” appears- his lifeנַפְשׁnafsh
life
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafsh” appears- and delivered youיַּצֵּלyatsel
rescue
To take someone out of danger or out of his enemy's hands.
Where else “yatsel” appears- from the handיַּדyad
power
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appears- of Midianמִדְיָןmidyan
Midian
See it on the mapWhere else “midyan” appears
Translation note
“Risked his life” is, word for word, “threw his soul far away.”
Places in this verse
Midian ?
Today: northwest Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan; debated
A region east of the Gulf of Aqaba, in what is now northwest Saudi Arabia; its borders are not certain.
Moses fled to Midian, married there and tended sheep (Exod 2:15-21). Centuries later the Midianites oppressed Israel until Gideon defeated them (Judg 6:1; 7:21).
The context
16Now then, if you have acted in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if you have done to him as his hands deserved —
17 · This verse (above)
18but you have risen up against my father’s house today and killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and made Abimelech king, the son of his slave woman, over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother —