The Meaning of Judges 13:19 Explained

Judges 13:19

KJV: So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

YLT: And Manoah taketh the kid of the goats, and the present, and offereth on the rock to Jehovah, and He is doing wonderfully, and Manoah and his wife are looking on,

Darby: So Mano'ah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders.

ASV: So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

So Manoah  took  a kid  with a meat offering,  and offered  [it] upon a rock  unto the LORD:  and [the angel] did  wondrously;  and Manoah  and his wife  looked on. 

What does Judges 13:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 13:15-25 - The Promise Fulfilled
Manoah's wife comforted her husband with admirable tact. How often her words come back to us, at the different stages of life! The fact that God continues to bless and use, to answer prayer and give revelations of Himself, may be quoted as a reason for believing that He has not cast us off. Would He have showed us such things as these and then kill us? His love in time past forbids us to think so.
Samson means sunny. A happy, laughing lad, with his profuse crown of unshorn hair-is it any wonder that the soldiers of the garrison, situated on the Dan-frontier, welcomed him? And the Spirit of God began to play on his young soul, as a minstrel plays on his harp. Such is the literal rendering of "began to move." Oh, happy are they whose natures lie open to God's touch, so that the least movement produces a quick and glad answer! As the Aeolian harp will respond to the kiss of the zephyr or the moan of the rising storm, so be it with our hearts and lives. Thus our unconscious influence may become as songs without words. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 13

1  Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines
2  An angel appears to Manoah's wife
8  The angel appears to Manoah
15  Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered
24  Samson is born

What do the individual words in Judges 13:19 mean?

so took Manoah - a young goat the young goat and with the grain offering and offered it upon the rock to Yahweh and a wondrous thing He did and while Manoah and his wife looked on
וַיִּקַּ֨ח מָנ֜וֹחַ אֶת־ גְּדִ֤י הָעִזִּים֙ וְאֶת־ הַמִּנְחָ֔ה וַיַּ֥עַל עַל־ הַצּ֖וּר לַֽיהוָ֑ה וּמַפְלִ֣א לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת וּמָנ֥וֹחַ וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ רֹאִֽים

וַיִּקַּ֨ח  so  took 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
מָנ֜וֹחַ  Manoah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָנׄוחַ  
Sense: a Danite, father of the judge Samson and inhabitant of Zorah.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
גְּדִ֤י  a  young  goat 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: גְּדִי  
Sense: kid, young male goat.
הָעִזִּים֙  the  young  goat 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: עֵז  
Sense: female goat, she-goat, goat, kid.
וְאֶת־  and  with 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
הַמִּנְחָ֔ה  the  grain  offering 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: מִנְחָה  
Sense: gift, tribute, offering, present, oblation, sacrifice, meat offering.
וַיַּ֥עַל  and  offered  it 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: סָלַק 
Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
עַל־  upon 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
הַצּ֖וּר  the  rock 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: צוּר 
Sense: rock, cliff.
לַֽיהוָ֑ה  to  Yahweh 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
וּמַפְלִ֣א  and  a  wondrous  thing 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular
Root: פָּלָא  
Sense: to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action.
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת  He  did 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
וּמָנ֥וֹחַ  and  while  Manoah 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָנׄוחַ  
Sense: a Danite, father of the judge Samson and inhabitant of Zorah.
וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ  and  his  wife 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
רֹאִֽים  looked  on 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: רָאָה 
Sense: to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider.

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