But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
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But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
But the servants of David had struck from Benjamin and among the men of Abner 360 men, they had died.
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But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
but they had struck down 360 Benjamites who were with Abner.
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, `so that' three hundred and threescore men died.
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
But the seruants of Dauid had smitten of Beniamin, and of Abners men, so that three hundreth and threescore men dyed.
But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men that were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.
and the servants of David have smitten of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men -- they died.
and the servants of David have struck of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men—they died.
But the men of David had killed 360 men of Benjamin with Abner.
But the servants of David had struck from Benjamin and among the men of Abner 360 men, they had died.
And the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, three hundred and sixty men, who had died.
But David’s servants had struck Benjamin Abner’s men so that three hundred sixty men died.
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and sixty men died.
However, they had killed three hundred and sixty of Abner's men from the tribe of Benjamin.
But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's men — three hundred and threescore men died.
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וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים sixty H8346 occurs in 56 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְעַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֗ד הִכּוּ֙ מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן וּבְאַנְשֵׁ֖י אַבְנֵ֑ר שְׁלֹשׁ מֵא֧וֹת וְשִׁשִּׁ֛ים אִ֖ישׁ מֵֽתוּ
But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred sixty men died.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ παῖς δαυίδ πατάσσω ὁ υἱός βενιαμίν ὁ ἀνήρ αβεννηρ τριακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἀνήρ παρά αὐτός
And the servants of David struck of the children of Benjamin, of the men of Abenner, three hundred and sixty men belonging to him.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וְעַבְדֵי דָוִד קְטַלוּ מִדְבֵית בִּנְיָמִין וּבְגַבְרֵי אַבְנֵר תְּלַת מְאָה וְשִׁתִּין גַבְרָא מִיתוּ:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shishshîym (“sixty”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
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Notes on 2 Samuel 2:31 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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John Gill's Exposition
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