Judges 15:15 (KJV)
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And he founda new jawboneof an assand put forthhis handand tookit and slewa thousand mentherewith
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new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew. Jud 3:31 Jud 4:21 Jud 7:16 Le 26:8 Jos 23:10 1Sa 14:6 1Sa 14:14 1Sa 17:49 1Sa 17:50 1Co 1:27 1Co 1:28
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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