The Meaning of Judges 20:11 Explained

Judges 20:11

KJV: So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

YLT: And every man of Israel is gathered unto the city, as one man -- companions.

Darby: So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.

ASV: So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

So all the men  of Israel  were gathered  against the city,  knit together  as one  man. 

What does Judges 20:11 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 20:11 mean?

So were gathered all the men of Israel against the city as man One united together -
וַיֵּֽאָסֵ֞ף כָּל־ אִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ אֶל־ הָעִ֔יר כְּאִ֥ישׁ אֶחָ֖ד חֲבֵרִֽים פ

וַיֵּֽאָסֵ֞ף  So  were  gathered 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָסַף 
Sense: to gather, receive, remove, gather in.
אִ֤ישׁ  the  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙  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.
אֶל־  against 
Parse: Preposition
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
הָעִ֔יר  the  city 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
כְּאִ֥ישׁ  as  man 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
אֶחָ֖ד  One 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶחָד  
Sense: one (number).
חֲבֵרִֽים  united  together 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: חָבֵר  
Sense: united.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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