The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
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The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
Now the 600 men girded with weapons of war who from the sons of Dan had stationed themselves at the entrance of the gate.
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The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
And the six hundreth men appointed with their weapons of warre, which were of the children of Dan, stoode by the entring of the gate.
And the six hundred men stood before the door, appointed with their arms.
(and the six hundred men girded with their weapons of war, who `are' of the sons of Dan, are standing at the opening of the gate), --
(and the six hundred men girded with their weapons of war, who [are] of the sons of Dan, are standing at the opening of the gate)—
Now the six hundred Danites, armed with weapons of war, stood at the entrance of the gate.
Now the 600 men girded with weapons of war who from the sons of Dan had stationed themselves at the entrance of the gate.
Now the six hundred men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate;
The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
The six hundred Danite armed men stood at the entrance by the gate.
And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.
And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
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חֲגוּרִים֙ to gird H2296 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 21 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְשֵׁשׁ מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ חֲגוּרִים֙ כְּלֵ֣י מִלְחַמְתָּ֔ם נִצָּבִ֖ים פֶּ֣תַח הַשָּׁ֑עַר אֲשֶׁ֖ר מִבְּנֵי דָֽן
The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ ἑξακόσιοι ἀνήρ ὁ ἀναζώννυμι ὁ σκεῦος ὁ παράταξις αὐτός ἵστημι παρά θύρα ὁ πύλη ὁ ἐκ ὁ υἱός δαν
And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan who were girded with their weapons of war stood by the door of the gate.
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 →
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.
וְשִׁית מְאָה גַבְרִין מְזָרְזִין בְּמָנֵי קְרָבֵיהוֹן קַיְמִין בְּמַעֲלָנָא דִתְרַע דְמִשֵׁבֶט בְּנֵי דָן:
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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.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châgar (“to gird”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 18:16 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.
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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.
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)