Judges 5:29
in Judges 5Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
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ASV
Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer to herself,
KJV
Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
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This verse in Judges 5
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
In these verses a sudden transition is made to the mother of the Canaanite general, and a striking picture is drawn of a mind agitated between hope and fear--impatient of delay, yet anticipating the news of victory and the rewards of rich booty. the lattice--a lattice window, common to the houses in warm countries for the circulation of air.
This site's exposition
Sisera’s mother looked through the window
on Judges 5:28-30
The song ends the enemy's side indoors, with a woman at the lattice. Her ladies reply with the arithmetic of plunder, "a girl or two for each warrior". Deborah called herself "a mother in Israel" at verse 7, and the poem closes on a second mother, awaiting a dead son.
This site's exposition
Her wisest ladies answer
John Gill reads the answer of the wise ladies as comfort, each taking her turn to ease the mother's fear. The verse sets their answer beside her own, since she keeps telling herself the same thing. The wisest counsel in Sisera's house is a guess about plunder.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Her wise ladies answered her,.... Every one in their turn endeavouring to comfort her and make her easy.
Though our enemies are to be prayed for, God's enemies, as such, are to be prayed against; and, when we see some of God's enemies remarkably humbled and brought down, this is an encouragement to us to pray for the downfall of all the rest. Deborah was a prophetess, and this prayer was a prediction that in due time all God's enemies shall perish, Ps. xcii.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חַכְמ֥וֹת | chakhmot | [the] wise [women] of | H2450 → | |
| שָׂרוֹתֶ֖יהָ | saroteiha | noble ladies her | H8282 → | |
| תַּעֲנֶ֑ינָּה | taaneinah | they answered | H6030 → | 331 times |
| אַף־ | ʾaf- | also | H637 → | |
| הִ֕יא | hi' | she | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| תָּשִׁ֥יב | tashiv | she brought back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אֲמָרֶ֖יהָ | ʾamareiha | words her | H561 → | |
| לָֽהּ׃ | lah | to <the> herself |
חַכְמ֥וֹת[the] wise [women] of
chakhmotH2450 →
שָׂרוֹתֶ֖יהָnoble ladies her
saroteihaH8282 →
תַּעֲנֶ֑ינָּהthey answered
taaneinahH6030 →331 times
אַף־also
ʾaf-H637 →
הִ֕יאshe
hi'H1931 →1879 times
תָּשִׁ֥יבshe brought back
tashivH7725 →1056 times
אֲמָרֶ֖יהָwords her
ʾamareihaH561 →
לָֽהּ׃to <the> herself
lah
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Judges
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; 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.