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Genesis 49

World English Bible, Catholic Edition, Verse 27

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²⁷ “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Genesis 49:27. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 5

Word Entries 63

Editorial Notes 0

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Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain

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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

בִּנְיָמִין֙ זְאֵ֣ב יִטְרָ֔ף בַּבֹּ֖קֶר יֹ֣אכַל עַ֑ד וְלָעֶ֖רֶב יְחַלֵּ֥ק שָׁלָֽל׃

9 word entries

בִּנְיָמִין֙

Lemma: 1144
Morphology: Hebrew: noun proper
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H1144
Occurrences: 113

זְאֵ֣ב

Lemma: 2061
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H2061
Occurrences: 5

יִטְרָ֔ף

Lemma: 2963
Morphology: Hebrew: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H2963
Occurrences: 19

בַּבֹּ֖קֶר

Lemma: b/1242
Morphology: Hebrew: preposition + noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: preposition
Strong's: H1242
Occurrences: 105

יֹ֣אכַל

Lemma: 398
Morphology: Hebrew: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H398
Occurrences: 481

עַ֑ד

Lemma: 5706
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H5706
Occurrences: 2

וְלָעֶ֖רֶב

Lemma: c/l/6153
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + preposition + noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H6153
Occurrences: 5

יְחַלֵּ֥ק

Lemma: 2505 a
Morphology: Hebrew: verb piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H2505
Occurrences: 36

שָׁלָֽל

Lemma: 7998
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H7998
Occurrences: 38

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.

Βενιαμὶν λύκος ἅρπαξ, τὸ πρωϊνὸν ἔδεται ἔτι, καὶ εἰς τὸ ἑσπέρας δίδωσι τροφήν.

13 word entries

Βενιαμὶν

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: Βενιαμίν
Transliteration: Beniamin
Morphology: proper noun, indeclinable
Gloss: Benjamin
Part of Speech: proper noun
Definition: Benjamin.
Occurrences: 165

λύκος

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: λύκος
Transliteration: lykos
Morphology: nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter 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: 5

ἅρπαξ

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: ἅρπαξ
Transliteration: arpax
Morphology: third-declension nominative singular pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

τὸ

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

πρωϊνὸν

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: πρωϊνὸν
Transliteration: proinon
Morphology: accusative masculine or nominative/accusative neuter 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: 2

ἔδεται

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: ἔδεται
Transliteration: edetai
Morphology: verb, present/future middle-passive form, 3rd singular
Gloss: he/she/it ...
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 23

ἔτι

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: ἔτι
Transliteration: eti
Morphology: adverb
Gloss: still, yet, again
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: Still, yet, further.
Occurrences: 520

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

εἰς

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: εἰς
Transliteration: eis
Morphology: preposition with accusative
Gloss: into, to, for
Part of Speech: preposition
Definition: Preposition commonly taking the accusative.
Occurrences: 6787

τὸ

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

ἑσπέρας

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: ἑσπέρα
Transliteration: hesperas
Morphology: noun, feminine genitive singular or accusative plural
Gloss: evening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Evening.
Occurrences: 96

δίδωσι

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: δίδωσι
Transliteration: didosi
Morphology: dative singular or indeclinable form 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: 10

τροφήν

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: τροφήν
Transliteration: trophen
Morphology: accusative singular feminine 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: 3

Targum Onkelos Torah Aramaic · Targum Onkelos · Public Domain

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Coverage: Torah

Ancient Aramaic Torah translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as the Hebrew original text.

בִּנְיָמִין בְּאַרְעֵהּ תִּשְׁרֵי שְׁכִנְתָּא וּבְאַחֲסַנְתֵּהּ יִתְבְּנֵי מַקְדְשָׁא בְּצַפְרָא וּבְפַנְיָא יְהוֹן מְקָרְבִין כַּהֲנַיָּא קָרְבָּנָא וּבְעִדַּן רַמְשָׁא יְהוֹן מְפַלְגִין מוֹתַר חוּלְקְהוֹן מִשְׁאַר קָדְשַׁיָּא

21 word entries

בִּנְיָמִין

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: נימין
Transliteration: bnymyn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 8

בְּאַרְעֵהּ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ארעה
Transliteration: b'r'h
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 22

תִּשְׁרֵי

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: תשרי
Transliteration: tshry
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 4

שְׁכִנְתָּא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: שכנתא
Transliteration: shknt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 5

וּבְאַחֲסַנְתֵּהּ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: באחסנתה
Transliteration: wb'chsnth
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 1

יִתְבְּנֵי

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

מַקְדְשָׁא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: קדשא
Transliteration: mqdsh'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 22

בְּצַפְרָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: צפרא
Transliteration: btspr'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 77

וּבְפַנְיָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: בפניא
Transliteration: wbpny'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 1

יְהוֹן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: יהון
Transliteration: yhwn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 122

מְקָרְבִין

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: קרבין
Transliteration: mqrbyn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 3

כַּהֲנַיָּא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: הניא
Transliteration: khny'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 17

קָרְבָּנָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: קרבנא
Transliteration: qrbn'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 32

וּבְעִדַּן

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

רַמְשָׁא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: רמשא
Transliteration: rmsh'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 61

יְהוֹן

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: יהון
Transliteration: yhwn
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 122

מְפַלְגִין

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

מוֹתַר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: ותר
Transliteration: mwtr
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 3

חוּלְקְהוֹן

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

מִשְׁאַר

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: שאר
Transliteration: msh'r
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 5

קָדְשַׁיָּא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: קדשיא
Transliteration: qdshy'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 2

Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

Source

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.

ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ܕܐܒܐ ܚܛܘܦܐ. ܒܨܦܪܐ ܢܐܟܘܠ ܒܙܬܐ. ܘܒܪܡܫܐ ܢܦ̇ܠܓ ܡܕܡ ܕܡܥܕܐ.

10 word entries

ܒܢܝܡܝܢ

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: BNJMJN
Morphology: BNJMJN/
Occurrences: 0

ܕܐܒܐ

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: D>B>
Morphology: D>B/~>
Occurrences: 0

ܚܛܘܦܐ

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: XVWP>
Morphology: XVWP/~>
Occurrences: 0

ܒܨܦܪܐ

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: BYPR>
Morphology: B-YPR/~>
Occurrences: 0

ܢܐܟܘܠ

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: N>KWL
Morphology: !N!>K&WL[
Occurrences: 0

ܒܙܬܐ

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: BZT>
Morphology: BZ(>/T~>
Occurrences: 0

ܘܒܪܡܫܐ

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: WBRMC>
Morphology: W-B-RMC/~>
Occurrences: 0

ܢܦ̇ܠܓ

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: NP^LG
Morphology: !N!PLG[:d
Occurrences: 0

ܡܕܡ

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: MDM
Morphology: MDM/
Occurrences: 0

ܕܡܥܕܐ

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: DM<D>
Morphology: D-!M!<D(J&>[/:d
Occurrences: 0

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

Source

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

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

Benjamin lupus rapax, mane comedat prædam, et vespere dividet spolia.]

10 word entries

Beniamin

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: Beniamin
Transliteration: Beniamin
Morphology: GreLa POS: proper noun
Occurrences: 158

lupus

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: lupus
Transliteration: lupus
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 14

rapax

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: rapax
Transliteration: rapax
Morphology: GreLa POS: adjective
Occurrences: 5

mane

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: mane
Transliteration: mane
Morphology: GreLa POS: adverb
Occurrences: 203

comedet

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: comedo
Transliteration: comedet
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 528

praedam

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: praeda
Transliteration: praedam
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 85

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: et
Transliteration: et
Morphology: GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Gloss: and
Part of Speech: conjunction
Definition: and, also, even
Etymology: Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
Occurrences: 50526

vespere

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: uesper
Transliteration: vespere
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 94

dividet

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: diuido
Transliteration: dividet
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 192

spolia

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: spolium
Transliteration: spolia
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 65

Ranked cross references

Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.

Judges 20:21

The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.

4 relevance votes

Judges 20:25

Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

4 relevance votes

Genesis 35:18

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

3 relevance votes

Genesis 46:21

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

3 relevance votes

Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

3 relevance votes

Numbers 23:24

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

3 relevance votes

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

2 relevance votes

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