They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
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They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And they said, “Giving, we will give.” And they spread out a cloak, and a man threw an earring of his spoil there.
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They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
“We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
“We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his spoil.
And they answered, Wee will giue them. And they spred a garment, and did cast therein euery man the earings of his pray.
They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.
And they say, `We certainly give;' and they spread out the garment, and cast thither each the ring of his prey;
And they say, “We certainly give”; and they spread out the garment, and each casts the ring of his prey there;
They answered, “We are glad to give them to you.” They spread out a cloak and every man threw on it the earrings from his plunder.
And they said, “Giving, we will give.” And they spread out a cloak, and a man threw an earring of his spoil there.
And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.
They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and cast into it every man the ear-rings of his prey.
“We'll happily give them to you,” they replied. They spread out a cloak, and each of them threw on it earrings from their plunder.
And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.
And they answered: 'We will willingly give them.' And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נֶ֥זֶם ring H5141 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נֶ֥זֶם ring H5141 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
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Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 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.
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.
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ נָת֣וֹן נִתֵּ֑ן וַֽיִּפְרְשׂוּ֙ אֶת הַשִּׂמְלָ֔ה וַיַּשְׁלִ֣יכוּ שָׁ֔מָּה אִ֖ישׁ נֶ֥זֶם שְׁלָלֽוֹ
They answered, We will willingly give them. They spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον δίδωμι δίδωμι καί ἀναπτύσσω ὁ ἱμάτιον αὐτός καί βάλλω ἐκεῖ ἀνήρ ἐνώτιον σκῦλον αὐτός
And they said, We will certainly give them: and he opened his garment, and each man cast therein an earring of his spoils.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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.
וַאֲמַרוּ מִתַּן נִתָּן וּפָרְשׁוּ יַת כְּסוּתָא וּרְמוּ לְתַמָן גְבַר קָדְשֵׁיהּ מִן בִּזְתָא:
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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 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nezem (“ring”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 8:25 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.
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).
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.
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.)