The Meaning of Judges 20:10 Explained

Judges 20:10

KJV: And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

YLT: and we have taken ten men of a hundred, of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of a myriad, to receive provision for the people, to do, at their coming to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly which it hath done in Israel.'

Darby: and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may requite Gib'e-ah of Benjamin, for all the wanton crime which they have committed in Israel."

ASV: and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And we will take  ten  men  of an hundred  throughout all the tribes  of Israel,  and an hundred  of a thousand,  and a thousand  out of ten thousand,  to fetch  victual  for the people,  that they may do,  when they come  to Gibeah  of Benjamin,  according to all the folly  that they have wrought  in Israel. 

What does Judges 20:10 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 20:10 mean?

And we will take ten men out of [every] hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel and a hundred out of [every] thousand and a thousand out of [every] ten thousand to make provisions for the people that they may repay when they come to Geba in Benjamin all the vileness that they have done in Israel
וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ עֲשָׂרָה֩ אֲנָשִׁ֨ים לַמֵּאָ֜ה לְכֹ֣ל ׀ שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וּמֵאָ֤ה לָאֶ֙לֶף֙ וְאֶ֣לֶף לָרְבָבָ֔ה לָקַ֥חַת צֵדָ֖ה לָעָ֑ם לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת לְבוֹאָם֙ לְגֶ֣בַע בִּנְיָמִ֔ן כְּכָל־ הַ֨נְּבָלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל

וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ  And  we  will  take 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, first person common plural
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
עֲשָׂרָה֩  ten 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: עֶשֶׂר 
Sense: ten.
אֲנָשִׁ֨ים  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
לַמֵּאָ֜ה  out  of  [every]  hundred 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Number, feminine singular
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
לְכֹ֣ל ׀  throughout  all 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
שִׁבְטֵ֣י  the  tribes 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: שֵׁבֶט  
Sense: rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל  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.
וּמֵאָ֤ה  and  a  hundred 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
לָאֶ֙לֶף֙  out  of  [every]  thousand 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
וְאֶ֣לֶף  and  a  thousand 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
לָרְבָבָ֔ה  out  of  [every]  ten  thousand 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Number, feminine singular
Root: רְבָבָה  
Sense: multitude, myriad, ten thousand.
לָקַ֥חַת  to  make 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
צֵדָ֖ה  provisions 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: צֵידָה  
Sense: provision, food.
לָעָ֑ם  for  the  people 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
לַעֲשׂ֗וֹת  that  they  may  repay 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
לְבוֹאָם֙  when  they  come 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine plural
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
לְגֶ֣בַע  to  Geba  in 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: גֶּבַע  
Sense: a city in Benjamin, modern ‘Jeba’, which stands on the top of a steep terraced hill, six miles or ten kilometres north east of Jerusalem and three miles or five kilometres from Gibeah, on the edge of the Wadi Suweinit looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, modern ‘Mukhmas’.
בִּנְיָמִ֔ן  Benjamin 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: בִּנְיָמִין 
Sense: Jacob’s and Rachel’s youngest son, Joseph’s full brother.
הַ֨נְּבָלָ֔ה  the  vileness 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: נְבָלָה  
Sense: senselessness, folly.
אֲשֶׁ֥ר  that 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
עָשָׂ֖ה  they  have  done 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל  in  Israel 
Parse: Preposition-b, 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.

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