The Meaning of Judges 21:7 Explained

Judges 21:7

KJV: How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

YLT: what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

Darby: What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"

ASV: How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

How shall we do  for wives  for them that remain,  seeing we have sworn  by the LORD  that we will not give  them of our daughters  to wives? 

What does Judges 21:7 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Judges 21

1  The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin
8  By the destruction of Jabesh Gilead they provide them four hundred wives
16  They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh

What do the individual words in Judges 21:7 mean?

What shall we do for those who remain for wives since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them our daughters as wives
מַה־ נַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לָהֶ֛ם לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים לְנָשִׁ֑ים וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ נִשְׁבַּ֣עְנוּ בַֽיהוָ֔ה לְבִלְתִּ֛י תֵּת־ לָהֶ֥ם מִבְּנוֹתֵ֖ינוּ ؟ לְנָשִֽׁים

נַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה  shall  we  do 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common plural
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
לָהֶ֛ם  for  those 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים  who  remain 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: יָתַר  
Sense: to be left over, remain, remain over, leave.
לְנָשִׁ֑ים  for  wives 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙  since  we 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Pronoun, first person common plural
Root: אֲנַחְנוּ  
Sense: we (first pers.
נִשְׁבַּ֣עְנוּ  have  sworn 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: שָׁבַע  
Sense: to swear, adjure.
בַֽיהוָ֔ה  by  Yahweh 
Parse: Preposition-b, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
לְבִלְתִּ֛י  that  we  will  not 
Parse: Preposition-l
Root: בִּלְתִּי  
Sense: not, except adv.
תֵּת־  give 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
מִבְּנוֹתֵ֖ינוּ  our  daughters 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: בַּת  
Sense: daughter.
؟ לְנָשִֽׁים  as  wives 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.

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