Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men.

New American Standard Bible

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

King James Version

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Holman Bible

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

International Standard Version

He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

A Conservative Version

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men with it.

American Standard Version

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

Amplified

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out his hand and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

Bible in Basic English

And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.

Darby Translation

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will find the jaw-bone of an ass, fresh, and he will stretch forth his hand and take it and will strike with it a thousand men.

King James 2000

And he found a new jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.

Modern King James verseion

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he found a jawbone of a ratten ass, and put forth his hand and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

NET Bible

He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

New Heart English Bible

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

The Emphasized Bible

Then found he the jawbone of an ass newly-slain, - so he thrust forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith, a thousand men.

Webster

And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.

World English Bible

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he found
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

a new
טרי 
Tariy 
Usage: 2

לחי 
L@chiy 
Usage: 21

of an ass
חמר חמור 
Chamowr 
ass
Usage: 96

and put forth
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

and took
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

it, and slew
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

אלף 
'eleph 
Usage: 504

men
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

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Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Samson Defeats The Philistines

14 He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which are on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands, 15 and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men. 16 And Samson saith, 'With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'


Cross References

Leviticus 26:8

and five of you have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.

Joshua 23:10

one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;

Judges 3:31

And after him hath been Shamgar son of Anath, and he smiteth the Philistines -- six hundred men -- with an ox-goad, and he saveth -- he also -- Israel.

Judges 4:21

And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth -- and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary -- and he dieth.

Judges 7:16

And he divideth the three hundred men into three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

1 Samuel 14:6

And Jonathan saith unto the young man bearing his weapons, 'Come, and we pass over unto the station of these uncircumcised; it may be Jehovah doth work for us, for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.'

1 Samuel 14:14

And the first smiting which Jonathan and the bearer of his weapons have smitten is of about twenty men, in about half a furrow of a yoke of a field,

1 Samuel 17:49-50

and David putteth forth his hand unto the vessel, and taketh thence a stone, and slingeth, and smiteth the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sinketh into his forehead, and he falleth on his face to the earth.

1 Corinthians 1:27-28

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

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