Judges 8:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־עָשׂ֣וּ חֶ֔סֶד עִם־בֵּ֥ית יְרֻבַּ֖עַל גִּדְע֑וֹן כְּכָל־הַטּוֹבָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פ

Transliteration

And not ʿāśû ḥesed with-bêt Yərubbaʿal Gidʿôn according to all-haṭṭôbâ which ʿāśâ with-Yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

*ʿāśû*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - they did/made
*ḥesed*: noun, masculine singular - loyalty/kindness/faithfulness
*bêt*: noun, masculine singular, construct state - house of
*Yərubbaʿal*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jerubbaal
*Gidʿôn*: proper noun, masculine singular - Gideon
*haṭṭôbâ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the good/goodness
*ʿāśâ*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he did/made
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

*ḥesed*: covenant loyalty, faithfulness, lovingkindness, mercy
*bêt*: house, household, family, dynasty
*Yərubbaʿal*: alternative name for Gideon, meaning 'let Baal contend'

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Referenced Verses

Judg 9:5 : 5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Judg 9:16-19 : 16 Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands 17 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, {H5048} and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: 18 and ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother); 19 if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
Eccl 9:14-15 : 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
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