Judges 5:6
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
בֵּית עֲנָת
Bêyth ʻĂnâth
Beth-Anath, a place in Palestine
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
אֹרַח
ʼôrach
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
חָדַל
châdal
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
English grammatical function word ('byways'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent ...
Key Terms in This Verse
חָדַל châdal
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
Study H2308 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →English grammatical function word ('byways'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are req...
Study GRAM →אֹרַח ʼôrach
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
Study H734 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →יוֹם yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Study H3117 →Cross References
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
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