The Meaning of Judges 5:18 Explained

Judges 5:18

KJV: Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

YLT: Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also -- on high places of the field.

Darby: Zeb'ulun is a people that jeoparded their lives to the death; Naph'tali too, on the heights of the field.

ASV: Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.

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What is the context of Judges 5:18?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Zebulun and Naphtali [were] a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

What does Judges 5:18 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 5:18 mean?

Zebulun [is] a people [who] jeopardized their lives to the point of death and Naphtali on the heights of the battlefield

זְבֻל֗וּן עַ֣ם חֵרֵ֥ף נַפְשׁ֛וֹ לָמ֖וּת וְנַפְתָּלִ֑י עַ֖ל מְרוֹמֵ֥י שָׂדֶֽה

זְבֻל֗וּן	Zebulun [is]
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: זְבוּלוּן Sense: the 0th of the sons of Jacob, 6th and last of Leah; progenitor of Zebulun.
עַ֣ם	a people
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: עַם Sense: nation, people.
חֵרֵ֥ף	[who] jeopardized
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: חָרַף Sense: to reproach, taunt, blaspheme, defy, jeopardise, rail, upbraid.
נַפְשׁ֛וֹ	their lives
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular Root: נֶפֶשׁ Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
לָמ֖וּת	to the point of death
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct Root: מוּת Sense: to die, kill, have one executed.
וְנַפְתָּלִ֑י	and Naphtali
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: נַפְתָּלִי Sense: the 5th son of Jacob and the 2nd by Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel.
מְרוֹמֵ֥י	the heights
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: מָרֹום Sense: height.
שָׂדֶֽה	of the battlefield
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שָׂדֶה Sense: field, land.

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