Genesis 14:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְאַרְבַּע֩ עֶשְׂרֵ֨ה שָׁנָ֜ה בָּ֣א כְדָרְלָעֹ֗מֶר וְהַמְּלָכִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתּ֔וֹ וַיַּכּ֤וּ אֶת־רְפָאִים֙ בְּעַשְׁתְּרֹ֣ת קַרְנַ֔יִם וְאֶת־הַזּוּזִ֖ים בְּהָ֑ם וְאֵת֙ הֽ͏ָאֵימִ֔ים בְּשָׁוֵ֖ה קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

û-ḇə-ʾarbaʿ ʿeśrēh šānāh bāʾ ḵəḏārlāʿōmer wə-ham-məlāḵîm ʾăšer ʾittô way-yakkû ʾeṯ-rəp̄āʾîm bə-ʿaštərōṯ qarnayim wə-ʾeṯ-haz-zûzîm bə-hām wə-ʾēṯ hā-ʾêmîm bə-šāwēh qiryāṯāyim

Grammar Details

• *û-ḇə-ʾarbaʿ*: conjunction + preposition + numeral - and in fourteen
• *ʿeśrēh*: numeral, feminine - ten
• *šānāh*: common noun, feminine singular - year
• *bāʾ*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - came
• *ḵəḏārlāʿōmer*: proper noun, king's name
• *wə-ham-məlāḵîm*: conjunction + definite article + common noun, masculine plural - and the kings
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/that
• *ʾittô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him
• *way-yakkû*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd plural - and they struck/defeated
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *rəp̄āʾîm*: proper noun, people group (Rephaim)
• *bə-ʿaštərōṯ*: preposition + proper noun, place name - in Ashteroth
• *qarnayim*: proper noun, place name (Karnaim)
• *wə-ʾeṯ*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *haz-zûzîm*: definite article + proper noun, people group (Zuzim)
• *bə-hām*: preposition + proper noun, place name (Ham)
• *hā-ʾêmîm*: definite article + proper noun, people group (Emim)
• *bə-šāwēh*: preposition + proper noun, place name - in Shaveh
• *qiryāṯāyim*: proper noun, place name (Kiriathaim)

Word Meanings

• *way-yakkû*: struck/defeated/smote

Referenced Verses

• Deut 3:11 : 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
• Gen 15:20 : 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
• Deut 1:4 : 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
• Deut 2:10-11 : 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
• Deut 2:20-23 : 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
• Deut 3:20 : 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
• Deut 3:22 : 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
• Josh 12:4 : 4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
• Josh 13:12 : 12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
• Josh 13:19 : 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
• Josh 13:31 : 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
• 2 Sam 5:18 : 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
• 2 Sam 5:22 : 22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
• 2 Sam 23:13 : 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
• 1 Chr 4:40 : 40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
• 1 Chr 11:15 : 15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
• 1 Chr 14:9 : 9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
• Ps 78:51 : 51 And smote{H8686)} all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
• Ps 105:23 : 23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
• Ps 105:27 : 27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
• Ps 106:22 : 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
• Isa 17:5 : 5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
• Jer 48:1 : 1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
• Jer 48:23 : 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,