Judges 3:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח אֵהוּד֙ אֶת־יַ֣ד שְׂמֹאל֔וֹ וַיִּקַּח֙ אֶת־הַחֶ֔רֶב מֵעַ֖ל יֶ֣רֶךְ יְמִינ֑וֹ וַיִּתְקָעֶ֖הָ בְּבִטְנֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And-wayyišlaḥ ʾēhûd ʾet-hand śĕmōʾlô and-wayyiqqaḥ ʾet-the-ḥereb from-upon yerek yĕmînô and-wayyitqāʿehā in-biṭnô.

Grammar Details

*wa*: conjunction + consecutive - and
*yišlaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he stretched out
*ʾēhûd*: proper noun - Ehud
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*yad*: noun, feminine singular construct - hand of
*śĕmōʾlô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his left
*wa-yiqqaḥ*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he took
*ha-ḥereb*: definite noun, feminine singular - the sword
*mē-ʿal*: preposition + preposition - from upon
*yerek*: noun, feminine singular construct - thigh of
*yĕmînô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his right
*wa-yitqāʿehā*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - and he thrust it
*bĕ-biṭnô*: preposition + noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his belly

Word Meanings

*wayyišlaḥ*: and he put forth/extended/stretched out
*śĕmōʾlô*: his left (hand)
*wayyiqqaḥ*: and he took/grabbed/seized
*yerek yĕmînô*: his right thigh
*wayyitqāʿehā*: and he thrust it/drove it/plunged it
*biṭnô*: his belly/stomach/abdomen

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Referenced Verses

Num 25:7-8 : 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
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.
Job 20:25 : 25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
Zech 13:3 : 3 And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
2 Cor 5:16 : 16 Wherefore {G575} we henceforth know no man after the flesh: {G1161} even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more.

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