So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
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So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
So on that day all of the fallen ones from Benjamin were 25, 000 men drawing the sword, all of them men of valor.
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So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these `were' men of valor.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
So that all that were slayne that day of Beniamin, were fiue and twentie thousand men that drewe sword, which were all men of warre:
And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war.
And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day -- the whole of these `are' men of valour;
And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty-five thousand men drawing sword, on that day—all these [were] men of valor;
All the soldiers of Benjamin who fell that day were twenty-five thousand—men who were trained to fight with the sword; all of them were distinguished in battle.
So on that day all of the fallen ones from Benjamin were 25, 000 men drawing the sword, all of them men of valor.
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
So that day twenty-five thousand Benjamites were killed, all armed with swords and all courageous warriors.
So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שֹׁ֥לֵֽף to draw off H8025 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שֹׁ֥לֵֽף to draw off H8025 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 17 Hebrew tokens and 22 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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וַיְהִי֩ כָל הַנֹּ֨פְלִ֜ים מִבִּנְיָמִ֗ן עֶשְׂרִים֩ וַחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה אֶ֥לֶף אִ֛ישׁ שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חֶ֖רֶב בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא אֶֽת כָּל אֵ֖לֶּה אַנְשֵׁי חָֽיִל
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί γίγνομαι πᾶς ὁ πίπτω ἀπό βενιαμίν εἴκοσι πέντε χιλιάς ἀνήρ ἕλκω ῥομφαία ἐν ὁ ἡμέρα ἐκεῖνος ὁ πᾶς οὗτος ἀνήρ δύναμις
And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וַהֲווֹ כָּל דְאִתְקְטִילוּ מִדְבֵית בִּנְיָמִין עַסְרִין וְחַמְשָׁא אַלְפִין גַבְרָא שַׁלְפֵי סַיְפָא בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא יַת כָּל אִלֵין גַבְרֵי עָבְדֵי קְרָבָא:
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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 17 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâlaph (“to draw off”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 20:46 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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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.
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.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — 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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
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).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.