Judges 11:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ זִקְנֵֽי־גִלְעָ֖ד אֶל־יִפְתָּ֑ח יְהוָ֗ה יִהְיֶ֤ה שֹׁמֵ֙עַ֙ בֵּֽינוֹתֵ֔ינוּ אִם־לֹ֥א כִדְבָרְךָ֖ כֵּ֥ן נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃

Transliteration

And wayyō'mərû ziqnê-Gil'ād to-Yiptach YHWH yihyeh šōmēa' between-us if-not according-to-dəḇārəḵā so na'ăśeh

Grammar Details

• *wayyō'mərû*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural consecutive - and they said
• *ziqnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - elders of
• *Gil'ād*: proper noun, masculine singular - Gilead
• *Yiptach*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jephthah
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD
• *yihyeh*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will be
• *šōmēa'*: verb, Qal participle masculine singular - hearing/listening/witness
• *dəḇārəḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your word
• *na'ăśeh*: verb, Qal imperfect 1st person plural - we will do

Word Meanings

• *šōmēa'*: hearing/listening/witness/one who hears
• *dəḇārəḵā*: your word/your statement/your speech

Referenced Verses

• Jer 42:5 : 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.
• Gen 31:50 : 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
• Jer 29:23 : 23 because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
• Gen 16:5 : 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.
• Gen 21:23 : 23 now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
• Gen 31:53 : 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the Fear of his father Isaac.
• Exod 20:7 : 7 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
• Deut 1:16 : 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.
• 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 And he said unto them, Jehovah is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they said, He is witness.
• 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
• 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, {G5547} he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.