Judges 5:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִבְחַר֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים חֲדָשִׁ֔ים אָ֖ז לָחֶ֣ם שְׁעָרִ֑ים מָגֵ֤ן אִם־יֵֽרָאֶה֙ וָרֹ֔מַח בְּאַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Bachar Elohim new-ones, then war gates; shield if-raah and-spear among-forty thousand in-Israel

Grammar Details

*Bachar*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will choose/chose
*Elohim*: noun, masculine plural - God/gods
חֲדָשִׁ֔ים: adjective, masculine plural - new ones
אָ֖ז: adverb - then
לָחֶ֣ם: noun, masculine singular - battle/war/bread
שְׁעָרִ֑ים: noun, masculine plural - gates
מָגֵ֤ן: noun, masculine singular - shield
אִם־יֵֽרָאֶה֙: particle + Niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - if it was seen
וָרֹ֔מַח: waw conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and spear
בְּאַרְבָּעִ֥ים: preposition ב + number - among forty
אֶ֖לֶף: noun, masculine singular - thousand
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל: preposition ב + proper name - in Israel

Word Meanings

*bachar*: choose/select/elect
*Elohim*: God/gods/divine beings
*raah*: see/appear/be visible
לָחֶ֣ם: war/battle/bread/food

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Judg 2:12 : 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Judg 2:17 : 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judg 4:3 : 3 And 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.
1 Sam 13:19-22 : 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

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