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Judges 9:55

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Judges 9:55 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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When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech had died, and they went away, a man to his place.

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
    When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne place.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And when he was dead, all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And the men of Israel see that Abimelech `is' dead, and go each one to his place;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the men of Israel see that Abimelech [is] dead, and each one goes to his place;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech had died, and they went away, a man to his place.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abim'elech was dead, they departed every man to his home.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all left and went home.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

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9
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8
distinct lemmas
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Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 conjunction

Verb forms

  • וַיִּרְא֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • מֵ֣ת Qal · Perfect
  • וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אִֽישׁ man H376 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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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 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 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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Topical passages linked to Judges 9:55 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 18:16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.
  • Proverbs 22:10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; Yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
  • 2 Samuel 20:21–22 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
  • 1 Kings 22:35–36 The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

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Hebrew Judges 9:55 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּרְא֥וּ אִֽישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לִמְקֹמֽוֹ

When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Judges 9:55 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁράω ἀνήρ ἰσραήλ ὅτι ἀποθνήσκω αβιμελεχ καί πορεύομαι ἀνήρ εἰς ὁ τόπος αὐτός

And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead; and they went each to his place.

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)
    וַחֲזוֹ גְבַר יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲרֵי מִית אֲבִימֶלֶךְ וַאֲזָלוּ אֱנַשׁ לְאַתְרֵיהּ:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on Judges 9:55 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

Jdg 9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

Ver. 55. They departed every man to his place.] They stayed not to take the tower, and to revenge their lord’s death, but haply were glad they were rid of such a tyrant.

“ Cure mors crudelem rapuisset saeva Neronem,

Credibile est multos Romam agitasse iocos.”

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

(55) They departed.—The death of a leader was generally sufficient to break up an ancient army (1Sa_17:51). “With Abimelech expired this first abortive attempt at monarchy. . . . The true King of Israel is still far in the distance” (Stanley).

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

55. the men of Israel] Though A. was only half an Israelite, his force was made up of Israelites; he put himself at the head of the Israelite enterprise against the Canaanites—such were the natives of Thebez; and with his death united action of this kind seems to have ceased.

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

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father,.... To the disgrace of his father's character, and to the hurt of his father's family:

in slaying his seventy brethren; excepting one, which was a piece of unheard of wickedness, attended with most sad aggravations; the shedding such blood required blood to be shed again, and it was righteous judgment God rendered to him; this, and the following verse contain the remarks made upon this history by the writer of it, who, as we have seen, in all probability, was the Prophet Samuel.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

The men of Israel Abimelech"s followers (see ver. 22).

Without a leader.

Nothing is more striking than the contrast between the conduct of mercenary or coerced soldiers in such circumstances and that of men inspired by noble enthusiasm and great principles.

I THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE DEATH OF SOVEREIGNS, etc. APPEAR AS NATIONAL JUDGMENTS, OVERAWING MEN"S HEARTS AND SEARCHING THEIR CONSCIENCES. Did rot Israel feel now what a fool"s errand it had been going? What better could it do in its irresolution and dismay than retire into privacy, and there in penitence and prayer await the new unfoldings of God"s purpose?

II ONLY A GREAT CAUSE CAN KEEP TOGETHER THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR NATURAL BOND AND AUTHORITY. Self-interest, fear, absence of common enthusiasm, scattered the army of the dead Abimelech. So shall misfortune and Divine judgments break up the confederacies of the wicked. "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera." But the Church of Christ can never be leaderless. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

III THE INFLUENCE OF THE WICKED SOON PERISHES. There is no talisman in the name of the son of Shechem now that he is dead. His body is left to the wolves and vultures. Only "the memory of the just smells sweet, and blossoms in the dust." The saintly departed rule us from their graves. The name of the Crucified an eternal, infinite power. M.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

seventy

"70" (See: Numbers)

made all the evil of the men of Shechem turn back on their own heads

"Evil turn back on their heads" here is an idiom. AT: "punished the men of Shechem for all the evil they had done" (See: Idiom)

on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal

This is an idiom. AT: "the curse of Jotham son of Jerub Baal happened to them" (See: Idiom)

Jerub Baal

This is another name for Gideon. See how you translated this name in Judges 6:32.

translationWords

Israel

Abimelech

God

avenge

evil

Shechem

head

curse

Jotham

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Lesson kit

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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîymelek (“Abimelech”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Abimelech” (ʼĂbîymelek) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does 2 Samuel 18:16, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “man” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «וַיִּרְא֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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