Judgeschapter 7
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Gideon Chooses 300 Soldiers, Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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Judges 7— 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.
Thirty-two thousand cut down to three hundred1
Judges 7:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Judges 7:1
Of signal valley ridge. Overlooking the plain. This is Targum Yonasan’s interpretation. The ridge overlooked the plain, and was thus suitable as an observation post. הַמּוֹרֶה connotes instruction, observation, as in "instructs by gesturing." 2 Mishlei,:13. From there they would observe, and then signal instructions to the valley.
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Judges 7:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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A barley loaf tumbling through an enemy's dream9
Judges 7:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Judges 7:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Judges 7:15
The recounting of the dream. The story of the dream. 7 מִסְפַר, generally translated as “number”, is interpreted here as “story”. "The retelling of the dream and its interpretation." 8 This is Targum Yonasan’s translation.
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Trumpets, pitchers, torches, and a rout in the dark16
Judges 7:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Judges 7:16
Shofars and torches to invoke the merit of the giving of the Torah. 10 At Mount Sinai, when the shofar sounded, and fire descended on the mountain. (Shemos,:16–19). According to the plain explanation: this took place at night, as it is written, 11 V. and it was dark.
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Judges 7:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Judges 7:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

