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Judg. 11:34 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Jephthah
Yiphtach (Hebrew #3316)
he will open; Jiphtach, an Israelite; also a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Jephthah, Jiphtah.
Pronounce: yif-tawkh'
Origin: from 6605
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Mizpeh
Mitspah (Hebrew #4709)
Mitspah, the name of two places in Palestine
KJV usage: Mitspah. (This seems rather to be only an orthographic variation of 4708 when "in pause".)
Pronounce: mits-paw'
Origin: feminine of 4708
a unto his house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, and, behold, his daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
came out
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
to meet
qir'ah (Hebrew #7125)
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
KJV usage: X against (he come), help, meet, seek, X to, X in the way.
Pronounce: keer-aw'
Origin: from 7122
him withb timbrels
toph (Hebrew #8596)
a tambourine
KJV usage: tabret, timbrel.
Pronounce: tofe
Origin: from 8608 contracted
and with dances
mchowlah (Hebrew #4246)
a dance
KJV usage: company, dances(-cing).
Pronounce: mek-o-law'
Origin: feminine of 4284
: and she was his only child
yachiyd (Hebrew #3173)
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
KJV usage: darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
Pronounce: yaw-kheed'
Origin: from 3161
; κbeside her he had neither son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
nor
'ow (Hebrew #176)
short for 185; desire (and so probably in Prov. 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if
KJV usage: also, and, either, if, at the least, X nor, or, otherwise, then, whether.
Pronounce: o
Origin: presumed to be the "constructive" or genitival form of -av {av}
daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
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Judg. 11:11• 11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them; and Jephthah uttered all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah. (Judg. 11:11)
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Ex. 15:20• 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)
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1 Sam. 18:6• 6And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles. (1 Sam. 18:6)
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Psa. 68:25• 25The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. (Psa. 68:25)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; (Psa. 150:4)
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Jer. 31:4• 4I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. (Jer. 31:4)
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of himself, or, he had not of his own either son or daughter.

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Daughter,
House,
Jephthah; Jephthae,
Mizpeh,
Son,
Timbrel

Cross References

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Mizpeh.
Judg. 11:11• 11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them; and Jephthah uttered all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah. (Judg. 11:11)
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Judg. 10:17• 17And the children of Ammon were called together and encamped in Gilead; and the children of Israel gathered together and encamped in Mizpeh. (Judg. 10:17)
his daughter.
Judg. 5:1‑31• 1Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on that day, saying,
 2For that leaders led in Israel, For that the people willingly offered themselves, Bless Jehovah!
 3Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, even I, will sing to Jehovah; I will hymn to Jehovah the God of Israel.
 4Jehovah, when thou wentest forth from Seir, When thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.
 5The mountains quaked before the face of Jehovah, That Sinai, from before Jehovah the God of Israel.
 6In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, The roads were unused, and the travellers on highways went by crooked paths.
 7The villages ceased in Israel, Ceased until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
 8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
 9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Jehovah!
 10Ye that ride on white she-asses, ye that sit on carpets, and ye that walk by the way, consider.
 11Because of the voice of those who divide the spoil in the midst of the places of drawing water; There they rehearse the righteous acts of Jehovah, His righteous acts toward his villages in Israel. Then the people of Jehovah went down to the gates.
 12Awake, awake, Deborah! awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead captive thy captives, thou son of Abinoam!
 13Then come down, thou, the remnant of nobles, as his people; Jehovah! come down with me in the midst of the mighty ones.
 14Out of Ephraim came those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler.
 15And the princes in Issachar were with Deborah; And Issachar, like Barak; They were sent into the valley at his feet. In the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart!
 16Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleating of the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben there were great deliberations of heart!
 17Gilead abode beyond Jordan; And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat on the sea-shore, And abode in his creeks.
 18Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto death, Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
 19Kings came,--they fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan; At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; They took no spoil of silver.
 20From heaven was the fight; The stars from their courses fought with Sisera.
 21The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, thou hast trodden down strength!
 22Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds.
 23Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty.
 24Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, Blessed above women in the tent!
 25He asked water, she gave milk; In the nobles' bowl she brought forth cream.
 26She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And she smote Sisera, she struck through his head, Shattered and pierced through his temples.
 27Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: Between her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell, overcome.
 28Them other of Sisera looketh out at the window, And crieth through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the trampings of his chariots?
 29The wise amongst her ladies answer her, Yea, she returneth answer to herself,
 30Have they not found, divided the booty, A damsel, two damsels, to each? A booty of dyed stuffs for Sisera, A booty of dyed stuffs of embroidery, Dyed stuff of double embroidery for the neck of a spoiler?
 31So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years. (Judg. 5:1‑31)
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Ex. 15:20• 20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances. (Ex. 15:20)
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1 Sam. 18:6‑7• 6And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles.
 7And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands. (1 Sam. 18:6‑7)
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Psa. 68:25• 25The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. (Psa. 68:25)
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Psa. 148:11‑12• 11Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth;
 12Both young men and maidens, old men with youths,-- (Psa. 148:11‑12)
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Psa. 150:4• 4Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; (Psa. 150:4)
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Jer. 31:4,13• 4I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
 13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow. (Jer. 31:4,13)
beside her.
or, he had not of his own either son ordaughter.
Heb. of himself.
neither.
Zech. 12:10• 10And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zech. 12:10)
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Luke 7:12• 12And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her. (Luke 7:12)
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Luke 8:42• 42because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him. (Luke 8:42)
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Luke 9:38• 38And lo, a man from the crowd cried out saying, Teacher, I beseech thee look upon my son, for he is mine only child: (Luke 9:38)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambours and with dancesb; and she was an only child: besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

JND Translation Notes

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Elsewhere "dance choirs."