Judgeschapter 4
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Jael Kills Sisera, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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Judges 4— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Deborah sends for Barak; he will not go alone1
Judges 4:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Judges 4:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Nine hundred chariots of iron swept away11
Judges 4:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Judges 4:11
Elon Betza'anayim. The marshland plain. 8 This is Targum Yonasan’s rendition. A plateau area with marshes, "mariscum", "morass" in old French.
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Judges 4:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Judges 4:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Judges 4:13
From Charoshes Hagoyim to Kishon stream. He mobilized them to proceed to the stream of Kishon from Charoshes Hagoyim where he was stationed.
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Judges 4:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Judges 4:14
Has not the Lord gone out before you: It is like its translation (in the Targum) - "did not the angel of the Lord go out before you to make you successful."
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A tent peg through the temples17
Judges 4:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Judges 4:17
And Sisera had fled: He did not flee to the place that his camp fled, as they fled towards their land, which was Haroshet-hagoyim; and Barak and his people chased after them and smote them with the edge of the sword. But Sisera knew that he could not escape by [just] fleeing, for they would catch up to him. So he fled to another place, in which they would not notice him and chase after him.
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Judges 4:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Judges 4:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

