The Meaning of Judges 20:38 Explained

Judges 20:38

KJV: Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

YLT: And there was the appointed sign to the men of Israel with the ambush -- their causing to go up a great volume of smoke from the city.

Darby: Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city

ASV: Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Now there was an appointed sign  between the men  of Israel  and  the liers in wait,  that they should make a great  flame  with smoke  rise up  out of the city. 

What does Judges 20:38 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Judges 20

1  The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
8  The decree of the assembly
12  The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites
18  The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
26  They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites, except six hundred

What do the individual words in Judges 20:38 mean?

And the appointed signal was between the men of Israel and the men in ambush that they would make a great rise up cloud of smoke from the city
וְהַמּוֹעֵ֗ד הָיָ֛ה לְאִ֥ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עִם־ הָאֹרֵ֑ב הֶ֕רֶב לְהַעֲלוֹתָ֛ם מַשְׂאַ֥ת הֶעָשָׁ֖ן מִן־ הָעִֽיר

וְהַמּוֹעֵ֗ד  And  the  appointed  signal 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מֹועֵד  
Sense: appointed place, appointed time, meeting.
לְאִ֥ישׁ  between  the  men 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
הָאֹרֵ֑ב  the  men  in  ambush 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: אָרַב  
Sense: to lie in wait, ambush, lurk.
הֶ֕רֶב  that  they  would  make  a  great 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: הַרְבָּה 
Sense: be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous.
לְהַעֲלוֹתָ֛ם  rise  up 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Hifil, Infinitive construct, third person masculine plural
Root: סָלַק 
Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
מַשְׂאַ֥ת  cloud 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: מַשְׂאֹות 
Sense: uprising, utterance, burden, portion, uplifting.
הֶעָשָׁ֖ן  of  smoke 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָשָׁן  
Sense: smoke.
הָעִֽיר  the  city 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.

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