Hebrew Interlinear

Judges 12:6 Interlinear

Then said Then said now Shibboleth Then said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand

Word-by-Word Analysis

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1וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559Then saidto say (used with great latitude)
2לוֹ֩H0
3וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559Then saidto say (used with great latitude)
4נָ֨אH4994'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
5שִׁבֹּ֜לֶתH7641now Shibboletha stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
6וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559Then saidto say (used with great latitude)
7סִבֹּ֗לֶתH5451Sibbolethan ear of grain
8וְלֹ֤אH3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
9יָכִין֙H3559for he could not frameproperly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
10לְדַבֵּ֣רH1696to pronounceperhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
11כֵּ֔ןH3651properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
12וַיֹּֽאחֲז֣וּH270Then they tookto seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
13אוֹת֔וֹH853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
14וַיִּשְׁחָט֖וּהוּH7819him and slewto slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
15אֶלH413near, with or among; often in general, to
16מַעְבְּר֣וֹתH4569him at the passagesa crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e., (figuratively) overwhelming
17הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ןH3383of Jordanjarden, the principal river of palestine
18וַיִּפֹּ֞לH5307and there fellto fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
19בָּעֵ֤תH6256at that timetime, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc
20הַהִיא֙H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
21מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִםH669of the Ephraimitesephrajim, a son of joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
22אַרְבָּעִ֥יםH705fortyforty
23וּשְׁנַ֖יִםH8147and twotwo; also (as ordinal) twofold
24אָֽלֶף׃H505thousandhence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand

Verse Context

Judges 12:5took And the Gileadites the passages of Jordan and it was so that when those Ephraimites...
Judges 12:6 (current)Then said Then said now Shibboleth Then said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand
Judges 12:7judged And Jephthah Israel six years...

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