Judges 11:21

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Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all of his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all of the land of the Amorite inhabiting that land.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Jehovah, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the Lord God of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the lande of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that countrey:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the Lord delivered him with all his army into the hands of Israel, and he slew him, and possessed all the land of the Amorrhite the inhabitant of that country,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Jehovah, God of Israel, giveth Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smite them, and Israel possesseth all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and YHWH, God of Israel, gives Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they strike them, and Israel possesses all the land of the Amorite, the inhabitant of that land,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel and they defeated them. So Israel took all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all of his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all of the land of the Amorite inhabiting that land.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    However, the Lord, the God of Israel, handed over Sihon and all his people to the Israelites, who defeated them. So the Israelites took over all the land inhabited by the Amorites.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

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סִיח֧וֹן
Çîychôwn
H5511
“Sihon”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from the same as H5477

TWOT: None

Sihon = "warrior" - king of the Amorites at the time of the conquest and defeated by Moses in Transjordan
  1. וַ֠יִּתֵּן nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. יְהוָ֨ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  3. אֱלֹהֵֽי ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  5. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  6. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  7. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. עַמּ֛וֹ ʻam H5971 “people · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  9. בְּיַ֥ד yâd H3027 “in/at · hand of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  10. יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  11. וַיַּכּ֑וּם nâkâh H5221 “and · to strike · them” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  12. וַיִּירַשׁ֙ yârash H3423 “and · to inherit” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  13. יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  14. אֵ֚ת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  15. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  16. אֶ֣רֶץ ʼerets H776 “land of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  17. הָאֱמֹרִ֔י ʼĔmôrîy H567 “the · Amorite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  18. יוֹשֵׁ֖ב yâshab H3427 “dwelling” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  19. הָאָ֥רֶץ ʼerets H776 “the · land” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  20. הַהִֽיא hûwʼ H1931 “the · he” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

About this verse

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21
words
15
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

סִיח֧וֹן Sihon H5511 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 13 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • וַ֠יִּתֵּן Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיַּכּ֑וּם Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּירַשׁ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • יוֹשֵׁ֖ב Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל Israel H3478 ×3
  • כָּל all H3605 ×2
  • אֶ֣רֶץ land H776 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 34 words from the Hebrew and 35 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 21 Hebrew tokens and 32 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

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Hebrew Judges 11:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַ֠יִּתֵּן יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת סִיח֧וֹן וְאֶת כָּל עַמּ֛וֹ בְּיַ֥ד יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וַיַּכּ֑וּם וַיִּירַשׁ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֚ת כָּל אֶ֣רֶץ הָאֱמֹרִ֔י יוֹשֵׁ֖ב הָאָ֥רֶץ הַהִֽיא

Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Judges 11:21 Septuagint · lemma form

καί παραδίδωμι κύριος ὁ θεός ἰσραήλ ὁ σηων καί πᾶς ὁ λαός αὐτός ἐν χείρ ἰσραήλ καί πατάσσω αὐτός καί κληρονομέω ἰσραήλ ὁ πᾶς γῆ ὁ ἀμορραῖος ὁ καταοἰκέω ὁ γῆ ἐκεῖνος

And the Lord God of Israel delivered Seon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck him; and Israel inherited all the land of the Amorite who lived in that land,

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּמְסַר יְיָ אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל יַת סִיחוֹן וְיַת כָּל עַמֵיהּ בִּידָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל וּמְחוֹנוּן וִירֵית יִשְׂרָאֵל יַת כָּל אֲרַע אֱמוֹרָאָה יָתֵיב אַרְעָא הַהִיא:

    (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.

Commentary

Notes on Judges 11:21 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

Jdg 11:21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

Ver. 21. And the Lord God of Israel.] Not the Archiflamen of Rome, nor any earthly power whatsoever: but "the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords," the great proprietary of the world.

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.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(21) The Lord God of Israel.—This is evidently a cardinal point in the mind of Jephthah. The God of Israel has decided against the gods of Ammon.

All the land of the Amorites.—All the land, therefore, which they took from the Amorites was theirs by. the immemorial law of nations, irrespective of any who had been its previous owners (Grot., De Jure Belli, 3:6, § 7).

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

21. Cf. Num_21:24 a.

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

And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites,.... Peaceably and quietly, nor did any pretend to call their right in question, or dispute their title, or give them any disturbance:

from Arnon unto Jabbok: which was the length of the country, and the direction was from south to north, and reached from the river Arnon, the border of Moab, to the river Jabbok, the border of Ammon; so that it included no part of what was at this time in the possession of either:

and from the wilderness even unto Jordan; which was the breadth of it, and its direction was from the west to the east, reaching from the wilderness of Arabia to the river Jordan.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 21, 22. These verses are an epitome of Num_21:24-32. Cf. also Deu_2:33-36. The wilderness is the country lying east of Moab up to the hill country. (see Jud_1:10:8, note) From the Amen to the Jabbok is the measurement from south to north; from the wilderness to the Jordan, from east to west.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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Door43 World Missions Community

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Jephthah's messengers continue to speak.

Sihon

See how you translated this man's name in Judges 11:19.

gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel

Here "hand" refers to power to defeat in battle. AT: "gave Israel power over Sihon and all his people" (See: Metonymy)

Arnon ... Jabbok

See how you translated the names of these rivers in Judges 11:13.

translationWords

Yahweh

God

Israel

Amorite

desert

Jordan River

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Lesson kit

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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 21 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çîychôwn (“Sihon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Sihon” (Çîychôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Numbers 21:21, which shares the word «Sihon», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “Israel” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וַ֠יִּתֵּן» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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