Judges 20:35:18Judg.20.35.W18TAB
שֹׁ֥לֵף
sholef
“drawing”
- Transliteration
- sho-LEF
- Extended
- shoh-LEEF
- IPA
- /ʃoːˈleːf/
Meaning by language
- English
- drawing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
sho-LEF
- phraseyour reading level
sho-LEF KHA-rev
- clause
kal-E-le sho-LEF KHA-rev
- sentence
va-yig-GOF Ye-ho-VAH ET-bin-ya-MIN lif-NE yis-ra-EL va-yash-khi-TU ve-NE yis-ra-EL be-vin-ya-MIN ba-YOM ha-HU e-ser-IM va-kha-mi-SHA E-lef u-me-A ISH kal-E-le sho-LEF KHA-rev
Exegesis
Finally, kallel sholef charev {כָּל־אֵלֶּה שֹׁלֵף חָרֶב | kol-ʾêlêh šōlēp̄ ḥā-reḇ} ‘all these drawing sword’ uses a participle to underscore martial readiness. The translation preserves the sequence of divine judgment, human action, temporal framing, and numerical precision while rendering Hebrew morphology idiomatically.
Root and etymology
RootShin–Lamed–Pe
“to draw out”
In context — Judges 20:35
And the LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men in Benjamin on that day, all these wielders of the sword .
About this coordinate
Judges 20:35:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Judges 20:35, so the Hebrew word שֹׁ֥לֵף (sholef) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Judg.20.35.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.35.W18.S1) and character.