King James Version
Judges 7:21 in the King James Version says “And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled .” — study this verse from Judges chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled .”
Judges 7:21 · KJV
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled .
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. in: or, toward border: Heb. lip
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
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“And they stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“every man”
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)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“in his place round about”
H5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
“and all the host”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the host”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
“and cried”
H7321to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e., shout (for alarm or joy)
“and fled”
H5127to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
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