The Meaning of Judges 5:12 Explained

Judges 5:12

KJV: Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

YLT: Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive thy captivity, Son of Abinoam.

Darby: "Awake, awake, Deb'orah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abin'o-am.

ASV: Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away thy captives, thou son of Abinoam.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Judges 5:12?

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What is the context of Judges 5:12?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

What does Judges 5:12 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 5:12-23 - The Stars In Their Courses

This noble psalm contains memorable sentences. The "captivity" phrase in Judges 5:12 is quoted in Psalms 68:18 and Ephesians 4:8; and in the latter is applied to the ascension of our Lord. He led in captivity those evil powers which had for so long held mankind in captivity. Let us not fear death, or the grave, or Hades. They have been bound to the chariot-wheels of our Lord, and their keys hang at his girdle, Revelation 1:18.

Levies and reinforcements poured in from the hill-country of Ephraim, once owned by Amalek, Judges 12:15; from little Benjamin; from the northern tribes: but the main brunt of the war of liberation fell on Zebulun and others adjacent to the plain of Esdraelon, one of the great battlefields of history. Megiddo stands to the south of this famous site and has given its name to the last momentous struggle of Armageddon. Clearly Deborah refers to a terrific storm that broke, perhaps at night, upon the plain, flooding the river Kishon and the adjacent lands, so that Sisera's chariots were rendered useless. O my soul, thou, too, mayest tread under foot thy foes, Judges 5:21, r.v., margin; but be sure never to refuse, as Meroz did, to respond when God needs thy help, Judges 5:23. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 5

¹ The Song of Deborah and Barak

What do the individual words in Judges 5:12 mean?

Awake awake Deborah Awake awake sing a song Arise Barak and lead away your captives son of Abinoam

עוּרִ֤י עוּרִי֙ דְּבוֹרָ֔ה ע֥וּרִי ע֖וּרִי דַּבְּרִי־ ! שִׁ֑יר ק֥וּם בָּרָ֛ק וּֽשֲׁבֵ֥ה שֶׁבְיְךָ֖ בֶּן־ אֲבִינֹֽעַם

עוּרִ֤י	Awake
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular Root: עוּר Sense: to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite.
עוּרִי֙	awake
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular Root: עוּר Sense: to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite.
דְּבוֹרָ֔ה	Deborah
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular Root: דְּבֹורָה Sense: the nurse of Rebekah who accompanied her from the house of Bethuel.
ע֥וּרִי	Awake
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular Root: עוּר Sense: to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite.
ע֖וּרִי	awake
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, feminine singular Root: עוּר Sense: to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite.
דַּבְּרִי־	sing
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperative, feminine singular Root: דָּבַר Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
! שִׁ֑יר	a song
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שִׁיר Sense: song.
ק֥וּם	Arise
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular Root: קוּם Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.
בָּרָ֛ק	Barak
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: בָּרָק Sense: son of Abinoam of Kedesh who, incited by Deborah, a prophetess of Ephraim, delivered the Israelites from the yoke of Jabin by routing the Canaanites in the plain of Jezreel.
וּֽשֲׁבֵ֥ה	and lead away
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular Root: שְׁבִי Sense: captivity, captives.
שֶׁבְיְךָ֖	your captives
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine singular Root: שָׁבָה Sense: to take captive.
בֶּן־	son
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בֵּן Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
אֲבִינֹֽעַם	of Abinoam
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: אֲבִינׄעַם Sense: father of Barak, descendant of Naphtali.

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