King James Version
“And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.”
Judges 20:10 · KJV
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. knit: Heb. fellows
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
KJV Study — Public Domain
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“throughout all the tribes”
H7626a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
“in Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and a thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“and a thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“out of ten thousand”
H7233abundance (in number), i.e., (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite)
“for the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“that they have wrought”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“of Benjamin”
H1144binjamin, youngest son of jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“according to all the folly”
H5039foolishness, i.e., (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that they have wrought”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“in Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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