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Judges 3:21

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

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ASV

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

KJV

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤חvai.yish.Lachand he stretched outH7971 →
אֵהוּד֙'e.HudEhudH164 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
יַ֣דyad[the] hand ofH3027 →
שְׂמֹאל֔וֹse.mo.Loleft hisH8040 →
וַיִּקַּח֙vai.yi.Kachand he tookH3947 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַחֶ֔רֶבha.Che.revthe swordH2719 →
מֵעַ֖לme.'Alfrom onH5921 →
יֶ֣רֶךְYe.rekh[the] thigh ofH3409 →
יְמִינ֑וֹye.mi.Noright hisH3225 →
וַיִּתְקָעֶ֖הָvai.yit.ka.'E.haand he thrust itH8628 →
בְּבִטְנֽוֹ׃be.vit.Noin belly hisH990 →

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1 Samuel 15:33But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.2 Samuel 20:10Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.Judges 4:21But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.Zechariah 13:3And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.Numbers 25:7–8On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,2 Corinthians 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.Job 20:25It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.Judges 3:16Now Ehud had made for himself a double-edged sword a cubit long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his cloak

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