(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
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(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
that my father fought for you and threw his life in front and delivered you from the hand of Midian—
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(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
(For my father fought for you, and aduentured his life, and deliuered you out of the handes of Midian.
And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hands of Madian,
because my father hath fought for you, and doth cast away his life from `him', and deliver you from the hand of Midian;
because my father has fought for you, and casts his life away from [him], and delivers you from the hand of Midian;
—and to think that my father fought for you, risked his life, and rescued you out of the hand of Midian—
that my father fought for you and threw his life in front and delivered you from the hand of Midian—
for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Mid'ian;
(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you from the hand of Midian:
Don't forget how my father fought for you and risked his own life to save you from the Midianites!
(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;
for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
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מִדְיָֽן Midian H4080 occurs in 55 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 20 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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אֲשֶׁר נִלְחַ֥ם אָבִ֖י עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וַיַּשְׁלֵ֤ךְ אֶת נַפְשׁוֹ֙ מִנֶּ֔גֶד וַיַּצֵּ֥ל אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִיַּ֥ד מִדְיָֽן
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὡς παρατάσσω ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ ὑπέρ σύ καί ἐκῥίπτω ὁ ψυχή αὐτός ἐκ ἐναντίος καί ῥύομαι σύ ἐκ χείρ μαδιαμ
as my father fought for you, and put his life in jeopardy, and delivered you out of the hand of Madiam;
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 →
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דְאַגִיחַ אַבָּא עֲלֵיכוֹן וּמְסַר יַת נַפְשֵׁיהּ כְּעַל גַב לְאִתְקְטָלָא וְשֵׁזִיב יַתְכוֹן מִיַד מִדְיָנָאֵי:
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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 (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Midyân (“Midian”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 9:17 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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
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.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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