King James Version
Judges 8:32 in the King James Version says “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 th...” — study this verse from Judges chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Judges 8:32 · KJV
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.
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
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
“in a good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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