The Meaning of Judges 20:2 Explained

Judges 20:2

KJV: And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

YLT: And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, station themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen drawing sword.

Darby: And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand men on foot that drew the sword.

ASV: And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And the chief  of all the people,  [even] of all the tribes  of Israel,  presented  themselves in the assembly  of the people  of God,  four  hundred  thousand  footmen  that drew  sword. 

What does Judges 20:2 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 20:2 mean?

And presented themselves the leaders of all the people all the tribes of Israel in the assembly of the people of God four hundred thousand soldiers foot soldiers who drew the sword -
וַיִּֽתְיַצְּב֞וּ פִּנּ֣וֹת כָּל־ הָעָ֗ם כֹּ֚ל שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בִּקְהַ֖ל עַ֣ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים אַרְבַּ֨ע מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף אִ֥ישׁ רַגְלִ֖י שֹׁ֥לֵֽף חָֽרֶב פ

וַיִּֽתְיַצְּב֞וּ  And  presented  themselves 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hitpael, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: יָצַב 
Sense: to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself.
פִּנּ֣וֹת  the  leaders 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: פִּנָּה  
Sense: corner.
כָּל־  of  all 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
הָעָ֗ם  the  people 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
שִׁבְטֵ֣י  the  tribes 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: שֵׁבֶט  
Sense: rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל  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.
בִּקְהַ֖ל  in  the  assembly 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: קָהָל  
Sense: assembly, company, congregation, convocation.
עַ֣ם  of  the  people 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: עַם 
Sense: nation, people.
הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים  of  God 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֱלֹהִים  
Sense: (plural).
אַרְבַּ֨ע  four 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: אַרְבַּע  
Sense: four.
מֵא֥וֹת  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
אֶ֛לֶף  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
אִ֥ישׁ  soldiers 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
רַגְלִ֖י  foot  soldiers 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: רַגְלִי  
Sense: on foot.
שֹׁ֥לֵֽף  who  drew 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: שָׁלַף  
Sense: to draw out or off, take off.
חָֽרֶב  the  sword 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֶרֶב  
Sense: sword, knife.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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