Judges 4

Bible in Basic English, Verse 4

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⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

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Word Entries 59

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Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain

Source

Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

וּדְבוֹרָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה נְבִיאָ֔ה אֵ֖שֶׁת לַפִּיד֑וֹת הִ֛יא שֹׁפְטָ֥ה אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽיא׃

11 word entries

וּדְבוֹרָה֙

Lemma: c/1683
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + noun proper
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H1683
Occurrences: 1

אִשָּׁ֣ה

Lemma: 802
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H802
Occurrences: 438

נְבִיאָ֔ה

Lemma: 5031
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H5031
Occurrences: 1

אֵ֖שֶׁת

Lemma: 802
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common feminine singular construct
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H802
Occurrences: 438

לַפִּיד֑וֹת

Lemma: 3941
Morphology: Hebrew: noun proper
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H3941
Occurrences: 1

הִ֛יא

Lemma: 1931
Morphology: Hebrew: pronoun
Part of Speech: pronoun
Strong's: H1931
Occurrences: 1188

שֹׁפְטָ֥ה

Lemma: 8199
Morphology: Hebrew: verb qal participle active
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H8199
Occurrences: 112

אֶת

Lemma: 853
Morphology: Hebrew: particle direct object marker
Part of Speech: particle
Strong's: H853
Occurrences: 8730

יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

Lemma: 3478
Morphology: Hebrew: noun proper
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H3478
Occurrences: 2260

בָּעֵ֥ת

Lemma: b/6256
Morphology: Hebrew: preposition + noun common both gender singular absolute
Part of Speech: preposition
Strong's: H6256
Occurrences: 107

הַהִֽיא

Lemma: d/1931
Morphology: Hebrew: particle definite article + pronoun
Part of Speech: particle
Strong's: H1931
Occurrences: 440

Greek Brenton Septuagint Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain

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Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported

Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.

Καὶ Δεββῶρα γυνὴ προφῆτις, γυνὴ Λαφιδὼθ, αὕτη ἔκρινε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ.

14 word entries

Καὶ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: καί
Transliteration: kai
Morphology: coordinating conjunction
Gloss: and, also, even
Part of Speech: conjunction
Definition: Coordinating conjunction.
Strong's: G2532
Occurrences: 56730

Δεββῶρα

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: δεββῶρα
Transliteration: debbora
Morphology: nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 9

γυνὴ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: γυνή
Transliteration: gyne
Morphology: noun, feminine nominative singular
Gloss: woman, wife
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Woman or wife.
Occurrences: 889

προφῆτις

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: προφῆτις
Transliteration: prophetis
Morphology: indefinite/interrogative pronoun pattern
Gloss: someone / who
Part of Speech: pronoun
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 2

γυνὴ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: γυνή
Transliteration: gyne
Morphology: noun, feminine nominative singular
Gloss: woman, wife
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Woman or wife.
Occurrences: 889

Λαφιδὼθ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: Λαφιδὼθ
Transliteration: laphidoth
Morphology: proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
Gloss: Λαφιδὼθ
Part of Speech: proper noun
Definition: Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

αὕτη

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: οὗτος
Transliteration: houtos
Morphology: demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: this one
Part of Speech: demonstrative pronoun
Definition: This, these.
Occurrences: 3767

ἔκρινε

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: ἔκρινε
Transliteration: ekrine
Morphology: vocative singular, imperative, or 3rd singular verb ending depending on context
Gloss: form requires context
Part of Speech: verb/noun form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 18

τὸν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

Ἰσραὴλ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: Ἰσραήλ
Transliteration: Israel
Morphology: proper noun, indeclinable
Gloss: Israel
Part of Speech: proper noun
Definition: Israel; the patriarch, people, or land depending on context.
Occurrences: 2695

ἐν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἐν
Transliteration: en
Morphology: preposition with dative
Gloss: in, among, with
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: Preposition commonly taking the dative.
Strong's: G1722
Occurrences: 13086

τῷ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

καιρῷ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: καιρός
Transliteration: kairo
Morphology: noun, masculine dative singular
Gloss: time, season
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Time, season, or appointed moment.
Occurrences: 329

ἐκείνῳ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἐκεῖνος
Transliteration: ekeino
Morphology: demonstrative pronoun, dative masculine/neuter singular
Gloss: to/for that one
Part of Speech: demonstrative pronoun
Definition: That, that one.
Occurrences: 490

Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

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Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha

Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.

ܘܕܒܘܪܐ ܐܢܬܬܐ ܢܒܝܬܐ ܐܬܬ ܠܦܝܬܘܪ ܘܗܝ ܗܘܬ ܕܝ̇ܢܐ ܠܐܝܣܪܝܠ ܒܗܘ ܙܒܢܐ

11 word entries

ܘܕܒܘܪܐ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: WDBWR>
Morphology: W-DBWR>/
Occurrences: 0

ܐܢܬܬܐ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: >NTT>
Morphology: >NT(>/T~>
Occurrences: 0

ܢܒܝܬܐ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: NBJT>
Morphology: NBJ(>/T~>
Occurrences: 0

ܐܬܬ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: >TT
Morphology: >T(J[T==
Occurrences: 0

ܠܦܝܬܘܪ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: LPJTWR
Morphology: L-PJTWR/
Occurrences: 0

ܘܗܝ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: WHJ
Morphology: W-HJ=
Occurrences: 0

ܗܘܬ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: HWT
Morphology: HW(J[T==
Occurrences: 0

ܕܝ̇ܢܐ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: DJ^N>
Morphology: D(W&JN[/>
Occurrences: 0

ܠܐܝܣܪܝܠ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: L>JSRJL
Morphology: L->JSRJL/
Occurrences: 0

ܒܗܘ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: BHW
Morphology: B-HW=
Occurrences: 0

ܙܒܢܐ

Confidence: medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note: OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration: ZBN>
Morphology: ZBN/~>
Occurrences: 0

Targumim on Prophets and Writings Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain

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Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.

Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.

וּדְבוֹרָה אִתְּתָא נְבִיאֲתָא אִיתַּת לַפִּידוֹת הִיא דַיְנָא יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּעִדָנָא הַהִיא׃

11 word entries

וּדְבוֹרָה

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: דבורה
Transliteration: wdbwrh
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 2

אִתְּתָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: אתתא
Transliteration: 'tt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 180

נְבִיאֲתָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: נביאתא
Transliteration: nby't'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 3

אִיתַּת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: איתת
Transliteration: 'ytt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 1

לַפִּידוֹת

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: פידות
Transliteration: lpydwt
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 1

הִיא

Confidence: medium aramaic rule-aligned
Note: Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
Lemma: היא
Transliteration: hy'
Morphology: personal/demonstrative pronoun
Gloss: she, it
Occurrences: 241

דַיְנָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ינא
Transliteration: dyn'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 144

יַת

Confidence: medium aramaic rule-aligned
Note: Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
Lemma: ית
Transliteration: yt
Morphology: accusative/direct object marker
Gloss: direct object marker
Occurrences: 4303

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Confidence: medium aramaic rule-aligned
Note: Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
Lemma: ישראל
Transliteration: yshr'l
Morphology: proper noun
Gloss: Israel
Occurrences: 2312

בְּעִדָנָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: עדנא
Transliteration: b'dn'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 140

הַהִיא׃

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ההיא
Transliteration: hhy'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 175

Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

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Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

Erat autem Debbora prophetis uxor Lapidoth, quæ judicabat populum in illo tempore.

12 word entries

erat

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: sum
Transliteration: erat
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 20614

autem

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: autem
Transliteration: autem
Morphology: GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Occurrences: 5069

Debbora

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: debbum
Transliteration: Debbora
Morphology: GreLa POS: proper noun
Occurrences: 3

prophetis

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: propheta
Transliteration: prophetis
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 506

uxor

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: uxor
Transliteration: uxor
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 505

Lapidoth

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: Lapidoth
Transliteration: Lapidoth
Morphology: GreLa POS: proper noun
Occurrences: 1

quae

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: qui
Transliteration: quae
Morphology: GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences: 15011

iudicabat

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: iudico
Transliteration: iudicabat
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 351

populum

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: populus
Transliteration: populum
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 2030

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: in
Transliteration: in
Morphology: GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
Gloss: in
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: in, into, among, on
Etymology: Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
Occurrences: 22264

illo

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: ille
Transliteration: illo
Morphology: GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences: 4947

tempore

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: tempus
Transliteration: tempore
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 761

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Exodus 15:20

And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.

5 relevance votes

2 Kings 22:14

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.

4 relevance votes

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