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Judges 13:17

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Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?

KJV

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

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This verse in Judges 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Do thee honor - If applied to a man, it would be by gifts, such for instance as Balak promised to the prophet Balaam Num 22:17, and such as were usually given to seers 1Sa 9:7-8; 2Ki 5:5, 2Ki 5:15: if to God, it would be by sacrifices Isa 43:23.

This site's exposition

What is your name

on Judges 13:17-18

The angel refuses his name as Jacob was refused in Genesis 32:29. The Hebrew word rendered “beyond comprehension” comes from the root behind the marvelous thing the LORD does. Isaiah 9:6 uses that root for the first name of the child, which is why Matthew Henry reads these verses together.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, what is thy name,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Manoah said unto the angel . . ., What is thy name?--Manoah's request elicited the most unequivocal proofs of the divinity of his supernatural visitor--in his name "secret" (in the Margin, "wonderful"), and in the miraculous flame that betokened the acceptance of the sacrifice.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֧אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • מָנ֛וֹחַManoah

    manoachH4495 →18 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מַלְאַ֥ךְ[the] angel of

    malakhH4397 →213 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מִ֣יwho?

    miH4310 →423 times

  • שְׁמֶ֑ךָ[is] name your

    shemekhaH8034 →864 times

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יָבֹ֥אit will come

    yavo'H935 →2568 times

  • דְבָרְךָ֖word your

    divreikhaH1697 →1440 times

  • וְכִבַּדְנֽוּךָ׃and we will honor you

    vekhibadnukhaH3513 →113 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 32:29

    And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

    it leads to

    • Job 11:7

      Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

    • Isaiah 9:6

      For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…

    • Judges 13:16–18

      And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know…

    • Luke 1:19

      “I am Gabriel,” replied the angel. “I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

    • Hosea 6:1

      Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

Where this verse is studied

About Judges

Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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