Judges 11:27

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָֽנֹכִי֙ לֹֽא־חָטָ֣אתִי לָ֔ךְ וְאַתָּ֞ה עֹשֶׂ֥ה אִתִּ֛י רָעָ֖ה לְהִלָּ֣חֶם בִּ֑י יִשְׁפֹּ֨ט יְהוָ֤ה הַשֹּׁפֵט֙ הַיּ֔וֹם בֵּ֚ין בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּבֵ֖ין בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

And ʾānōkî lōʾ-ḥāṭāʾtî to you, and you ʿōśê with me rāʿâ lĕhillāḥēm in me. yišpōṭ YHWH haššōpēṭ hayyôm between bĕnê yiśrāʾēl and between bĕnê ʿammôn

Grammar Details

• *ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun 1st person singular - I
• *lōʾ-ḥāṭāʾtî*: negative particle and qal perfect 1st person singular - I have not sinned
• *ʿōśê*: qal participle masculine singular construct - doing
• *rāʿâ*: adjective feminine singular - evil/wrong
• *lĕhillāḥēm*: preposition lamed with niphal infinitive construct - to fight
• *yišpōṭ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular jussive - may he judge
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *haššōpēṭ*: qal participle masculine singular with definite article - the judge
• *hayyôm*: noun masculine singular with definite article - today
• *bĕnê*: noun masculine plural construct - sons of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʿammôn*: proper noun - Ammon

Word Meanings

• *ʾānōkî*: I/myself
• *ḥāṭāʾtî*: sinned/offended/done wrong
• *ʿōśê*: doing/committing/performing
• *rāʿâ*: evil/wrong/harm
• *lĕhillāḥēm*: to fight/to battle/to wage war
• *yišpōṭ*: may judge/will judge/let judge
• *haššōpēṭ*: the judge/the one who judges

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
• 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
• Gen 16:5 : 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• 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.
• 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
• Job 9:15 : 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
• Job 23:7 : 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Ps 7:8-9 : 8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
• Ps 7:11 : 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
• Ps 50:6 : 6 And the heavens shall declare{H8686)} his righteousness: for God is judge{H8802)} himself. Selah.
• Ps 75:7 : 7 But God is the judge{H8802)}: he putteth down{H8686)} one, and setteth up{H8686)} another.
• Ps 82:8 : 8 Arise{H8798)}, O God, judge{H8798)} the earth: for thou shalt inherit{H8799)} all nations.
• Ps 94:2 : 2 Lift up{H8734)} thyself, thou judge{H8802)} of the earth: render{H8685)} a reward to the proud.
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
• John 5:22-23 : 22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
• Rom 14:10-12 : 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
• 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
• 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• Heb 12:23 : 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,