Judges 15:20

King James 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Judg 13:1 : 1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Heb 11:32 : 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
Judg 13:5 : 5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

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1And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
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Judg 16:31
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31Then 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
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17And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
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