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Judges 15:15

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new jawbone: Heb. moist

slew: Judges 3:31, Judges 4:21, Judges 7:16; Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 14:14, 1 Samuel 17:49-50; 1 Corinthians 1:27-28

a thousand: Some would render the words aileph ish:, "a chief;" but it is alluph:, and not aileph:, which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be ish alluph:, "a man, a chief," and not alluph ish:, "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."

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