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Judges

Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex · 21 chapters

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Judges 1:1

וַיְהִ֗י אַחֲרֵי֙ מ֣וֹת יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ וַֽיִּשְׁאֲלוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בַּיהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר מִ֣י יַעֲלֶה לָּ֧נוּ אֶל הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֛י בַּתְּחִלָּ֖ה לְהִלָּ֥חֶם בּֽוֹ

and to be · after · death of · Joshua · and to ask · sons of · Israel · in/at LORD · to say · who · to go up · to/for us · to · the Canaanite · in/at the beginning · to fight · in/at him

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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Judges — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.

  1. אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 269
  2. בֵּן H1121 bên son 204
  3. אִישׁ H376 ʼîysh man 199
  4. יִשְׂרָאֵל H3478 Yisrâʼêl Israel 184
  5. יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 173
  6. כֹּל H3605 kôl all 138
  7. הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 121
  8. בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 96
  9. יָד H3027 yâd hand 92
  10. עָשָׂה H6213 ʻâsâh to do 91
  11. יָלַךְ H3212 yâlak to walk 85
  12. יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 75

About this book

  • 21 Chapters
  • 618 Verses
  • 9,905 Hebrew words
  • 1,186 Distinct lemmas

Judges is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 21 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.

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