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Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

KJV

Sinistram manum misit ad clavum, et dexteram ad fabrorum malleos. Percussitque Sisaram quærens in capite vulneri locum, et tempus valide perforans :

Vulgate

χεῖρα αὐτῆς ἀριστερὰν εἰς πάσσαλον ἐξέτεινεν καὶ δεξιὰν αὐτῆς εἰς σφῦραν κοπιώντων, καὶ ἐσφυροκόπησεν Σεισαρά, διήλωσεν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπάταξεν, διήλωσεν κρόταφον αὐτοῦ.

LXX

She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

ASV

יָדָ/הּ֙ לַ/יָּתֵ֣ד תִּשְׁלַ֔חְנָה וִֽ/ימִינָ֖/הּ לְ/הַלְמ֣וּת עֲמֵלִ֑ים וְ/הָלְמָ֤ה סִֽיסְרָא֙ מָחֲקָ֣ה רֹאשׁ֔/וֹ וּ/מָחֲצָ֥ה וְ/חָלְפָ֖ה רַקָּתֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הַלְמ֣וּת
hlmvt
noun · 1×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
וֹ
v
noun · 141×
וֹ
v
pronoun · 5×
יִתְדֹ֥ת
ytdt
noun · 24×
יַחֲלֹֽף
ychlp
verb · 28×
ם
m
verb · 14×
מָחֲקָ֣ה
mchqh
verb · 1×
נִי
ny
verb · 9×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
סִֽיסְרָא֙
sysr'
proper_noun · 21×
עָמֵ֖ל
'ml
noun · 9×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 17:49 — And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
  • Judg 4:21 — Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep a