The Meaning of Judges 15:5 Explained

Judges 15:5

KJV: And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

YLT: and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth them out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth it from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard -- olive-yard.

Darby: And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.

ASV: And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And when he had set  the brands  on fire,  he let [them] go  into the standing corn  of the Philistines,  and burnt up  both the shocks,  and also the standing corn,  with the vineyards  [and] olives. 

What does Judges 15:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Judges 15:1-8 - In Bad Company
What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for him, and was more readily influenced by her own people than by her husband. How could she enter into his desire to emancipate Israel? To carry out his life-purpose of freeing Israel, He must break with her. Notice how this poor wife was visited with the very chastisement from which she hoped, by treachery, to save herself. Compare Judges 14:17 and Judges 15:6.
Samson's riddle is constantly being verified. We all have to encounter lions. Happy are we if we rend them in the power of the Holy Spirit! And have we not often discovered that the very sorrow, trial, or temptation which we dreaded most and which threatened to destroy us, has yielded the strength and sweetness, the meat and honey, which have enriched us for all after-time? Samson shared these with his mother and father. Let us never keep to ourselves those glorious lessons and results which we may have won in conflicts and sorrows that only the eye of God has witnessed. Let others share their benefit. [source]

Chapter Summary: Judges 15

1  Samson is denied his wife
3  He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands
6  His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
8  Samson smites them hip and thigh
9  He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines
14  He kills them with a jawbone
18  God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi

What do the individual words in Judges 15:5 mean?

And when he had set fire on the torches and he let [the foxes] go into the standing grain of the Philistines and burned up from the shocks and the standing grain and as well as to the vineyards [and] olive groves
וַיַּבְעֶר־ אֵשׁ֙ בַּלַּפִּידִ֔ים וַיְשַׁלַּ֖ח בְּקָמ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּבְעֵ֛ר מִגָּדִ֥ישׁ וְעַד־ קָמָ֖ה וְעַד־ כֶּ֥רֶם זָֽיִת

וַיַּבְעֶר־  And  when  he  had  set 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּעַר 
Sense: to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled.
אֵשׁ֙  fire 
Parse: Noun, common singular
Root: אֵשׁ  
Sense: fire.
בַּלַּפִּידִ֔ים  on  the  torches 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: לַפִּיד  
Sense: torch.
וַיְשַׁלַּ֖ח  and  he  let  [the  foxes]  go 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׁלַח  
Sense: to send, send away, let go, stretch out.
בְּקָמ֣וֹת  into  the  standing  grain 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: קָמָה  
Sense: standing grain.
פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים  of  the  Philistines 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine plural
Root: פְּלִשְׁתִּי  
Sense: an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan.
וַיַּבְעֵ֛ר  and  burned  up 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּעַר 
Sense: to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled.
מִגָּדִ֥ישׁ  from  the  shocks 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular
Root: גָּדִישׁ 
Sense: heap, stack, pile.
קָמָ֖ה  the  standing  grain 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: קָמָה  
Sense: standing grain.
וְעַד־  and  as  well  as  to 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition
Root: עַד  
Sense: as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as.
כֶּ֥רֶם  the  vineyards 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֶּרֶם 
Sense: vineyard.
זָֽיִת  [and]  olive  groves 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: זַיִת  
Sense: olive, olive tree.

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