Study it in the app“Gaal again spoke and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by the way of the oak of Meonenim.””
Gaalגַּעַלagainוַיֹּסֶף עוֹדspokeלְדַבֵּרand said,וַיֹּאמֶר“Look,הִנֵּהpeopleעָםare coming downיוֹרְדִיםfromמֵעִםthe centerטַבּוּרof the land,הָאָרֶץand oneאֶחָדcompanyוְרֹאשׁis comingבָּאby the wayמִדֶּרֶךְof the oakאֵלוֹןof Meonenim.”מְעוֹנְנִים
Gaal
Gaal, son of Ebed, who stirred up the people of Shechem against Abimelech. The name means "loathing."
Where else “gaal” appearsdo again
To do again what had already been done.
Where else “yosef” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “daber” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appearsgo down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “yordim” appearscenter, highest part
The central and highest part of a region. The word appears only in Judges 9:37 and Ezekiel 38:12.
Where else “tabur” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsone
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appearschief
Literally "the head": the one who leads, or the best of something.
Where else “rosh” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appearsroad
The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.
Where else “derech” appearsoak, terebinth
A great tree, oak or terebinth; it served as a landmark.
Where else “elon” appearspractice soothsaying
To seek signs to divine, something forbidden.
Where else “meonnim” appears“The center of the land” is the central and highest part of the region. “Meonenim” means “soothsayers” (Deuteronomy 18:10): the oak bore that name.
36Gaal saw the people and said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him, “The shadow of the mountains you are seeing as men.”
37 · This verse (above)
38Zebul said to him, “Where now is your mouth, with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Is not this the people whom you despised? Go out, please, now and fight against them.”
