וַיָּ֣מָת אִבְצָ֔ן וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֥ית לָֽחֶם
Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Judges 12:10
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Judges 12:10 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
Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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King James Version Public Domain
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
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King James Version Public Domain
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then Ibzan died, and was buryed at Bethlehem.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he died, and was buried in Bethlehem.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Ibzan dieth, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Ibzan dies, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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אִבְצָ֔ן
ʼIbtsân
H78
“Ibzan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Judges 12:8
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
a Bethlehemite judge in time of the judges
- וַיָּ֣מָת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אִבְצָ֔ן ʼIbtsân H78 “Ibzan” Noun, Proper
- וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר qâbar H6912 “and · to bury” Conjunction + Verb, Niphal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בְּבֵ֥ית Bêyth Lechem H1035 “in/at · Bethlehem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- לָֽחֶם Bêyth Lechem H1035 “Bethlehem” 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 →
- 5
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אִבְצָ֔ן Ibzan H78 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אִבְצָ֔ן Ibzan H78 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
Verb forms
- וַיָּ֣מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר Niphal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּבֵ֥ית Bethlehem H1035 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 8 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 5 Hebrew tokens and 7 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 ἀποθνήσκω αβαισαν καί θάπτω ἐν βαιθλεεμ
And Abaissan died, and was buried in Bethleem.
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)
וּמִית אִבְצָן וְאִתְקְבַר בְּבֵית לֶחֶם:
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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.
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 5 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼIbtsân (“Ibzan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼIbtsân carries the sense “Ibzan.” How does it shape the verse?
- Judges 12:8 shares the word «Ibzan» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “Bethlehem” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- The verb «וַיָּ֣מָת» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
- “Bethlehem” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 12:10 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.
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.