The Meaning of Judges 20:7 Explained

Judges 20:7

KJV: Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

YLT: lo, ye are all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'

Darby: Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here."

ASV: Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Behold, ye [are] all children  of Israel;  give  here  your advice  and counsel. 

What does Judges 20:7 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Judges 20

1  The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
8  The decree of the assembly
12  The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites
18  The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
26  They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites, except six hundred

What do the individual words in Judges 20:7 mean?

Look all of you [are] sons of Israel give your advice and counsel here now
הִנֵּ֥ה כֻלְּכֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הָב֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם דָּבָ֥ר וְעֵצָ֖ה הֲלֹֽם

הִנֵּ֥ה  Look 
Parse: Interjection
Root: הִנֵּה  
Sense: behold, lo, see, if.
כֻלְּכֶ֖ם  all  of  you  [are] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
בְּנֵ֣י  sons 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
הָב֥וּ  give 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: הַב 
Sense: to give, provide, ascribe, come.
לָכֶ֛ם  your 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
דָּבָ֥ר  advice 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: דָּבָר  
Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
וְעֵצָ֖ה  and  counsel 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עֵצָה 
Sense: counsel, advice, purpose.
הֲלֹֽם  here  now 
Parse: Adverb
Root: הֲלֹם  
Sense: here, hither.