וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְשָׁלֹ֖שׁ שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּ֖מָת וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר בְּשָׁמִֽיר
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Judges 10:2
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Judges 10:2 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he judged Israel 23 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he iudged Israel three and twentie yeere and dyed, and was buried in Shamir.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died and was buried in Samir.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he judgeth Israel twenty and three years, and he dieth, and is buried in Shamir.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he judges Israel [for] twenty-three years, and he dies, and is buried in Shamir.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He judged Israel twenty-three years. He died and was buried in Shamir.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he judged Israel 23 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He led Israel as a judge for twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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בְּשָׁמִֽיר
Shâmîyr
H8069
“in/at · Shamir”
Preposition + Noun, Proper
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 15:48
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shamir = "a point" or " thorn"
- a town in the mountain district of Judah
- a town in Ephraim where the judge Tola lived and was buried
- וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ shâphaṭ H8199 “and · to judge” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְשָׁלֹ֖שׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “and · three” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- שָׁנָ֑ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַיָּ֖מָת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר qâbar H6912 “and · to bury” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בְּשָׁמִֽיר Shâmîyr H8069 “in/at · Shamir” Preposition + Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בְּשָׁמִֽיר Shamir H8069 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בְּשָׁמִֽיר Shamir H8069 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיָּ֖מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר Niphal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί κρίνω ὁ ἰσραήλ εἴκοσι τρεῖς ἔτος καί ἀποθνήσκω καί θάπτω ἐν σαμιρ
And he judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Samir.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וְדָן יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל עַסְרִין וּתְלַת שְׁנִין וּמִית וְאִתְקְבַר בְּשָׁמִיר:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shâmîyr (“Shamir”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Shamir” (Shâmîyr) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Joshua 15:48, which shares the word «Shamir», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 10:2 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).