King James Version
“And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.”
Judges 20:45 · KJV
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising . with ease: or, from Menuchah, etc over: Heb. unto over against
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and fled”
H5127to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
“toward the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
“and they gleaned”
H5953to effect thoroughly; by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e., maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
“of them in the highways”
H4546a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“men”
H376a 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)
“and pursued”
H1692properly, to impinge, i.e., cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit
“hard after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“men”
H376a 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)
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