King James Version
Judges 8:31 in the King James Version says “And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. called: Heb. set” — study this verse from Judges chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. called: Heb. set”
Judges 8:31 · KJV
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
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“she also bare”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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
“him a 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
“he called”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“whose name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
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