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Judges 19:27

in Judges 19

In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands upon the threshold.

KJV

And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.

This verse in Judges 19

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

her lord rose up in the morning

on Judges 19:27-28

The detail the narrator stops on is her hands upon the threshold, which measures how far she got. Up, and let us be going is the only word the Levite is recorded as speaking to her in the whole chapter, and none answered is all the Hebrew says. The Septuagint adds at this point that she was dead, where the Hebrew leaves the moment of her death unstated, so when she died is read two ways by the old witnesses and the chapter itself does not say.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וַיָּ֨קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965628 times

  • אֲדֹנֶ֜יהָmaster<s> her

    ʾadoneihaH113333 times

  • בַּבֹּ֗קֶרin the morning

    babokerH1242214 times

  • וַיִּפְתַּח֙and he opened

    vaiyiftachH6605144 times

  • דַּלְת֣וֹת[the] doors of

    daltotH181788 times

  • הַבַּ֔יִתthe house

    habayitH10042046 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֖אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H33181067 times

  • לָלֶ֣כֶתto go

    lalekhetH19801546 times

  • לְדַרְכּ֑וֹto way his

    ledarkoH1870707 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֧הand there!

    vehinehH2009843 times

  • הָאִשָּׁ֣הthe woman

    haishahH802781 times

  • פִֽילַגְשׁ֗וֹconcubine his

    filagshoH637037 times

  • נֹפֶ֙לֶת֙[was] falling

    nofeletH5307435 times

  • פֶּ֣תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607164 times

  • הַבַּ֔יִתthe house

    habayitH10042046 times

  • וְיָדֶ֖יהָand hands her

    veyadeihaH30271618 times

  • עַל־[were] on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הַסַּֽף׃the threshold

    hasafH5592

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

About Judges

A Levite Finds a Woman's Corpse — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
A Levite Finds a Woman's Corpse — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.