The Meaning of Judges 14:11 Explained

Judges 14:11

KJV: And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

YLT: and it cometh to pass when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.

Darby: And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

ASV: And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And it came to pass, when they saw  him, that they brought  thirty  companions  to be with him. 

What does Judges 14:11 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 14:1-14 - A Self-Willed Youth
Timnath lay just across the frontier, in the Philistine country. It was a bad match and the beginning of life-trouble. Young people cannot be too careful as to their first love-match. Pray over it before you let your heart go. Take the advice of parents and friends. Whatever you do, marry only "in the Lord." For a Christian to marry one who is destitute of the divine life, is not only to set Christ's law at defiance, but to incur the misery of perpetual discord. It is impossible to have perfect fellowship with one who is not agreed with you in your deepest nature, 1 Corinthians 7:39.
This young lion, on the path between the vineyards, seems to have been the means of awakening Samson to claim that divine strength which had awaited his appeal but until that moment had been undiscovered. May it not be that lions have been allowed to roar at you, that you might be driven back upon God, and compelled to avail yourself of those infinite resources which reside in the ever-living Savior? [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 14

1  Samson desires a wife of the Philistines
6  In his journey he kills a lion
8  In a second journey he finds honey in the carcass
10  Samson's marriage feast
12  His riddle by his wife is made known
19  He strikes down thirty Philistines
20  His wife is married to another

What do the individual words in Judges 14:11 mean?

And it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions and to be with him
וַיְהִ֖י כִּרְאוֹתָ֣ם אוֹת֑וֹ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים מֵֽרֵעִ֔ים וַיִּהְי֖וּ אִתּֽוֹ

וַיְהִ֖י  And  it  came  to  pass 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
כִּרְאוֹתָ֣ם  when  they  saw 
Parse: Preposition-k, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine plural
Root: רָאָה 
Sense: to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider.
וַיִּקְחוּ֙  that  they  brought 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים  thirty 
Parse: Number, common plural
Root: שְׁלֹשִׁים  
Sense: thirty, thirtieth.
מֵֽרֵעִ֔ים  companions 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: מֵרֵעַ  
Sense: companion, friend, confidential friend.
וַיִּהְי֖וּ  and  to  be 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
אִתּֽוֹ  with  him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: אֵת 
Sense: with, near, together with.

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