King James Version
Judges 8:29 in the King James Version says “And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.” — study this verse from Judges chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.”
Judges 8:29 · KJV
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. of his: Heb. going out of his thigh
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. called: Heb. set
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and dwelt”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
“in his own house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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