Judges 15:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל בִּימֵ֥י פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָֽה׃ פ

Transliteration

And wayyišpōṭ ʾet-yiśrāʾēl in days bîmê pəlištîm ʿeśrîm šānâ. פ

Grammar Details

*wayyišpōṭ*: conjunction + consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he judged
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*bîmê*: preposition + masculine plural construct - in days of
*pəlištîm*: proper noun, masculine plural - Philistines
*ʿeśrîm*: numeral - twenty
*šānâ*: feminine singular noun - year
פ: Hebrew scribal marker - section break

Word Meanings

*wayyišpōṭ*: and he judged/and he governed/and he led
*bîmê pəlištîm*: in the days of the Philistines/during the Philistine period

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Judg 13:1 : 1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judg 16:31 : 31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Heb 11:32 : 32 And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets:
Judg 13:5 : 5 for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

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1And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
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