King James Version
1 Chronicles 5:22 in the King James Version says “For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.” — study this verse from 1 Chronicles chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.”
1 Chronicles 5:22 · KJV
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. took: Heb. led captive men: Heb. souls of men
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.
And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers. famous: Heb. men of names
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For there fell”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“was of God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“because the war”
H4421a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)
“And they dwelt”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“in their steads until the captivity”
H1473exile; concretely and collectively exiles
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