Judges 1:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹֽנִי־בֶ֗זֶק שִׁבְעִ֣ים ׀ מְלָכִ֡ים בְּֽהֹנוֹת֩ יְדֵיהֶ֨ם וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֜ם מְקֻצָּצִ֗ים הָי֤וּ מְלַקְּטִים֙ תַּ֣חַת שֻׁלְחָנִ֔י כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔יתִי כֵּ֥ן שִׁלַּם־לִ֖י אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיְבִיאֻ֥הוּ יְרוּשָׁלַ֖͏ִם וַיָּ֥מָת שָֽׁם׃

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer ʾĂdōnî-bezeq: šibʿîm məlāḵîm with bəhōnôt their hands and their feet məquṣṣāṣîm hāyû məlaqqəṭîm under šulḥānî, as kaʾăšer ʿāśîtî, so šillam-lî ʾĕlōhîm. And wayəbîʾuhû Yərûšālaim and wayyāmāt there.

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: consecutive imperfect, qal, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*ʾĂdōnî-bezeq*: proper noun, masculine singular - Adoni-bezek (lord of Bezek)
*šibʿîm*: cardinal number, common - seventy
*məlāḵîm*: noun, masculine plural - kings
*bəhōnôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - thumbs/big toes of
*məquṣṣāṣîm*: pual participle, masculine plural - being cut off
*hāyû*: perfect, qal, 3rd common plural - they were
*məlaqqəṭîm*: piel participle, masculine plural - gathering
*šulḥānî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st common singular suffix - my table
*kaʾăšer*: conjunction + relative pronoun - as/just as
*ʿāśîtî*: perfect, qal, 1st common singular - I did/have done
*šillam-lî*: perfect, piel, 3rd masculine singular + preposition + 1st common singular suffix - he has repaid to me
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (used as singular) - God
*wayəbîʾuhû*: consecutive imperfect, hiphil, 3rd common plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and they brought him
*Yərûšālaim*: proper noun, place name - Jerusalem
*wayyāmāt*: consecutive imperfect, qal, 3rd masculine singular - and he died

Word Meanings

*məquṣṣāṣîm*: cut off/amputated/severed
*hāyû*: were/had been/used to be
*məlaqqəṭîm*: gathering/picking up/gleaning
*šillam-lî*: repaid me/requited me/recompensed me
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 15:33 : 33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.
Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when thou hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.
Luke 6:37-38 : 37 And judge not, and ye shall not {G3361} be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not {G3361} be condemned: release, and ye shall be released: 38 give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.
Rom 2:15 : 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else {G2532} excusing [them] );
Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: {G2532} mercy glorieth against judgment.
Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Rev 16:6 : 6 for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: {G1063} they are worthy.
Exod 21:23-25 : 23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Lev 24:19-21 : 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: 20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him. 21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

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