Judges 5:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עוּרִ֤י עוּרִי֙ דְּבוֹרָ֔ה ע֥וּרִי ע֖וּרִי דַּבְּרִי־שִׁ֑יר ק֥וּם בָּרָ֛ק וּֽשֲׁבֵ֥ה שֶׁבְיְךָ֖ בֶּן־אֲבִינֹֽעַם׃

Transliteration

Ur ur Deborah, ur ur dabar-song; qum Barak and-shabah your-captives, son-of-Abinoam

Grammar Details

*Ur*: Qal imperative, feminine singular - awake!
*ur*: Qal imperative, feminine singular - awake!
*Deborah*: proper name, feminine
*dabar*-song: Piel imperative, feminine singular + noun - speak/utter a song!
*qum*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - arise!
*Barak*: proper name, masculine
וּֽשֲׁבֵ֥ה: waw conjunction + Qal imperative, masculine singular - and take captive!
שֶׁבְיְךָ֖: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your captives
בֶּן־אֲבִינֹֽעַם: construct relationship - son of Abinoam

Word Meanings

*ur*: awake/rouse oneself/stir up
*dabar*: speak/declare/utter
*qum*: arise/stand up/establish
*shabah*: take captive/lead away/hold prisoner

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Referenced Verses

Ps 57:8 : 8 Awake up{H8798)}, my glory; awake{H8798)}, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake{H8686)} early.
Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended{H8804)} on high, thou hast led captivity captive{H8804)}: thou hast received{H8804)} gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious{H8802)} also, that the LORD God might dwell{H8800)} among them.
Eph 4:8 : 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Ps 103:1-2 : 1 A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Ps 108:2 : 2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Isa 14:2 : 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Isa 49:24-26 : 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Isa 52:1-2 : 1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isa 60:1 : 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Jer 31:26 : 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Judg 5:1-3
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1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
Judg 4:12-16
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12And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
Judg 4:3-10
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3And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
8And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
9And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
Judg 5:11
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11They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Judg 5:6-7
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6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
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Judg 5:13
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Judg 5:15
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15And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
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1Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
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Ps 7:6
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6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Ps 57:8
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8Awake up{H8798)}, my glory; awake{H8798)}, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake{H8686)} early.
Judg 5:30-31
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30Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
2 Chr 28:11-12
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67%
11Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
12Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
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10When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
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2Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Judg 5:21
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21The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
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2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Num 21:17
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17Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
Ps 83:9
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Ps 132:8
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8Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
Isa 54:1
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1Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isa 32:9
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9Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Jer 31:6
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Judg 5:28
65%
28The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Zeph 3:14
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14Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Ps 35:23
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23Stir up thyself, and awake{H8685)} to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Ps 44:23
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23Awake{H8798)}, why sleepest{H8799)} thou, O Lord? arise{H8685)}, cast us not off{H8799)} for ever.
Ps 81:2
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2Take{H8798)} a psalm, and bring{H8798)} hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Ps 59:5
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