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Judges 21

Judg. 21:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, There must be an inheritance
yrushah (Hebrew #3425)
something occupied; a conquest; also a patrimony
KJV usage: heritage, inheritance, possession.
Pronounce: yer-oosh-shaw'
Origin: from 3423
for them that be escaped
pleytah (Hebrew #6413)
feminine of 6412; deliverance; concretely, an escaped portion
KJV usage: deliverance, (that is) escape(-d), remnant.
Pronounce: pel-ay-taw'
Origin: or pletah {pel-ay-taw'}
of Benjamin
Binyamiyn (Hebrew #1144)
son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Benjamin.
Pronounce: bin-yaw-mene'
Origin: from 1121 and 3225
, that a tribe
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
be not destroyed
machah (Hebrew #4229)
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
KJV usage: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out).
Pronounce: maw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
out of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Benjamin,
Israel,
Tribe

Cross References

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an inheritance.
Num. 26:55• 55Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. (Num. 26:55)
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Num. 36:7• 7So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. (Num. 36:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they said, There must be a possession for those of Benjamin that have escaped, that a tribe be not blotted out of Israel.