Judges 9:2
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
טוֹב
is good
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טוֹב
Taste and see. David does not say understand or agree — he says taste. Towb is goodness you experience, not just believe in. God's goodness is not a theological position. It is something you encounter when you draw near to Him.
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נָא
please
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נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
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בֵּן
the sons of
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בֵּן
Son. Ben. A son with full rights. You are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Full rights. Full access. Full inheritance.
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בַּעַל
the citizens of
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בַּעַל
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
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דָבַר
speak
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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עֶצֶם
am bone/ your
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עֶצֶם
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
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יְרֻבַּעַל
Jerub-Baal
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יְרֻבַּעַל
Jerubbaal, a symbolic name of Gideon
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שְׁכֶם
Shechem
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שְׁכֶם
Shekem, a place in Palestine
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שִׁבְעִים
seventy
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שִׁבְעִים
seventy
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מָשַׁל
to rule
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מָשַׁל
to rule
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