Judges 13:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Judges 13:14 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.
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She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of all that comes forth from the vine of wine, she shall not eat, and wine or beer, she shall not drink, and any unclean, she shall not eat. All that I have commanded her, she shall keep.”

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
    She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
  • King James Version Public Domain
    She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    She may not eat of anything that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    She may eate of nothing that commeth of the vinetree: she shall not drinke wine nor strong drinke, nor eate any vncleane thing: let her obserue all that I haue commanded her.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And let her eat nothing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: and whatsoever I have commanded her, let her fulfil and observe.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    of anything which cometh out from the wine-vine she doth not eat, and wine and strong drink she doth not drink, and any unclean thing she doth not eat; all that I have commanded her she doth observe.'
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    she does not eat of anything which comes out from the wine-vine, and she does not drink wine and strong drink, and she does not eat any unclean thing; she observes all that I have commanded her.”
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    She may not eat anything that comes from the vines, and do not let her drink wine or strong drink or eat anything unclean. She must obey everything I have commanded her to do.”
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of all that comes forth from the vine of wine, she shall not eat, and wine or beer, she shall not drink, and any unclean, she shall not eat. All that I have commanded her, she shall keep.”
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    “She must not eat anything that comes from the vine or drink wine or any other alcoholic drink. She must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must follow everything I instructed her to do.”
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grapevine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.'

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וְשֵׁכָר֙
shêkâr
H7941
“and · strong drink”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7937

TWOT: 2388a

strong drink, intoxicating drink, fermented or intoxicating liquor
  1. מִכֹּ֣ל kôl H3605 “from · all” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  3. יֵצֵא֩ yâtsâʼ H3318 “to go out” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. מִגֶּ֨פֶן gephen H1612 “from · vine of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  5. הַיַּ֜יִן yayin H3196 “the · wine” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. לֹ֣א lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
  7. תֹאכַ֗ל ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  8. וְיַ֤יִן yayin H3196 “and · wine” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. אַל ʼal H408 “not” Particle, Negative
  10. תֵּ֔שְׁתְּ shâthâh H8354 “to drink” Verb, Qal, Jussive, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  11. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. טֻמְאָ֖ה ṭumʼâh H2932 “uncleanness” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  13. אַל ʼal H408 “not” Particle, Negative
  14. תֹּאכַ֑ל ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Jussive, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  15. כֹּ֥ל kôl H3605 “all” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  16. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  17. צִוִּיתִ֖יהָ tsâvâh H6680 “to command” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  18. תִּשְׁמֹֽר shâmar H8104 “to keep” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

About this verse

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19
words
13
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְשֵׁכָר֙ strong drink H7941 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְשֵׁכָר֙ strong drink H7941 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 5 particles

Verb forms

  • יֵצֵא֩ Qal · Imperfect
  • תֹאכַ֗ל Qal · Imperfect
  • תֵּ֔שְׁתְּ Qal · Jussive
  • תֹּאכַ֑ל Qal · Jussive
  • צִוִּיתִ֖יהָ Piel · Perfect
  • תִּשְׁמֹֽר Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מִכֹּ֣ל all H3605 ×3
  • הַיַּ֜יִן wine H3196 ×2
  • תֹאכַ֗ל to eat H398 ×2
  • אֲשֶׁר which H834 ×2
  • אַל not H408 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 32 words from the Hebrew and 38 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 19 Hebrew tokens and 27 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Judges 13:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
  • John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
  • Judges 13:4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:
  • John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:4 We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
  • Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.
  • Judges 13:7 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
  • Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Judges 13:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מִכֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁר יֵצֵא֩ מִגֶּ֨פֶן הַיַּ֜יִן לֹ֣א תֹאכַ֗ל וְיַ֤יִן וְשֵׁכָר֙ אַל תֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וְכָל טֻמְאָ֖ה אַל תֹּאכַ֑ל כֹּ֥ל אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִ֖יהָ תִּשְׁמֹֽר

She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Judges 13:14 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀπό πᾶς ὅς ἐκπορεύομαι ἐκ ἄμπελος ὁ οἶνος οὐ ἐσθίω καί οἶνος καί σίκερα μέθυσμα μή πίνω καί πᾶς ἀκάθαρτος μή ἐσθίω πᾶς ὅσος ἐντέλλομαι αὐτός φυλάσσω

She shall eat of nothing that comes of the vine yielding wine, and let her not drink wine or strong liquor, and let her not eat anything unclean: all things that I have charged her she shall observe.

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)
    מִכֹּל דְיִפּוֹק מִגוּפְנָא דְחַמְרָא לָא תֵיכוּל וַחֲמַר חֲדַת וְעַתִּיק לָא תִשְׁתֵּי וְכָל מְסָאָב לָא תֵיכוּל כָּל דִי פַקֵידְתָּהּ תִּטָר:

    (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 13:14 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 13:14 She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe.

Ver. 14. She may not eat, &c., ] viz., While she is with child, or a nurse: and let her see that the child do much more refrain the use of those things forbidden him by the law. {Num 6:1-27}

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

Anything forbidden by the Law.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(14) The object of this message only seems to have been to give certainty to Manoah.

Any thing that cometh of the vine.—In Num_6:3-5 it is emphatically added, “He shall separate himself from wine . . . and shall drink no vinegar of wine . . . neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine, from the kernels even to the husk.”

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

14. eat … of the vine] i.e. fresh or dried grapes, Num_6:3, 1Sa_25:18, Jer_31:29 f. etc. Not merely intoxicants, but anything to do with the vine is forbidden, for the reason suggested on Jdg_13:4; cf. the prohibition laid upon the Roman Flamen Dialis, who was not allowed even to walk under a trellised vine (Plutarch, Quaest. Rom., 112). Similarly the Rechabites not only eschewed wine but planted no vineyards; their abstinence, however, was a protest in favour of nomadic as against settled life, Jer_35:6-9. See further NSI., p. 305.

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

She may not eat of anything that cometh from the vine,.... Grapes moist or dried, kernels, or husks, or anything made of them:

neither let her drink wine, or strong drink; as she was to be careful to abstain from such liquors, so her husband also is enjoined not to suffer her to drink any:

nor eat any unclean thing; which was so by the law of Moses, and particularly by the law of the Nazarites:

all that I commanded her, let her observe; both with respect to herself and the child.

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

Compare Num 6:4. In both passages the vine is described by the somewhat unusual though more accurate term, “vine of the wine” - the grape-bearing vine - to distinguish it from the wild cucumber vine 2Ki 4:39, or other plants to which the name vine was applied.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

She may not eat of anything, etc. Nearly the identical words Num_6:4.

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

Lesson kit

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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 19 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shêkâr (“strong drink”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “strong drink” (shêkâr) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Leviticus 10:9, which shares the word «strong drink», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “all” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «יֵצֵא֩» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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