King James Version
Judges 12:7 in the King James Version says “And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.”
Judges 12:7 · KJV
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. 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.
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“judged”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“six”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
“in one of the cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“of Gilead”
H1568gilad, a region east of the jordan; also the name of three israelites
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