KJV: How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
YLT: How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?
Darby: How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
ASV: How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
אֵיכָ֞ה | how |
Parse: Interjection Root: אֵיךְ Sense: how? interj. |
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יִרְדֹּ֤ף | could chase |
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: רָדַף Sense: to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after. |
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אֶחָד֙ | one |
Parse: Number, masculine singular Root: אֶחָד Sense: one (number). |
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אֶ֔לֶף | a thousand |
Parse: Number, masculine singular Root: אֶלֶף Sense: a thousand. |
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וּשְׁנַ֖יִם | and two |
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, md Root: שְׁנַיִם Sense: two. |
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יָנִ֣יסוּ | put to flight |
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: נוּס Sense: to flee, escape. |
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רְבָבָ֑ה | ten thousand |
Parse: Number, feminine singular Root: רְבָבָה Sense: multitude, myriad, ten thousand. |
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אִם־ | except |
Parse: Conjunction Root: אִם Sense: if. |
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כִּי־ | Unless |
Parse: Conjunction Root: כִּי Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since. |
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צוּרָ֣ם | their Rock |
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine plural Root: צוּר Sense: rock, cliff. |
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מְכָרָ֔ם | had sold them |
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine plural Root: מָכַר Sense: to sell. |
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וַֽיהוָ֖ה | and Yahweh |
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: the proper name of the one true God. |
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؟ הִסְגִּירָֽם | had surrendered them |
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine plural Root: סָגוּר Sense: to shut, close. |