King James Version
Judges 3:26 in the King James Version says “And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.”
Judges 3:26 · KJV
When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. covereth: or, doeth his easement
And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
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“and escaped”
H4422properly, to be smooth, i.e., (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth youn
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“while they tarried”
H4102properly, to question or hesitate, i.e., (by implication) to be reluctant
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“and passed beyond”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and escaped”
H4422properly, to be smooth, i.e., (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth youn
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