Judg 15:15

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new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew.

Judg 3:31; Judg 4:21; Judg 7:16; Lev 26:8; Josh 23:10; 1Sam 14:6; 1Sam 14:14; 1Sam 17:49; 1Sam 17:50 1Cor 1:27; 1Cor 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."