KJV King James Version
And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
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Judges 8:31
And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
WEB World English Bible
His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
ASV American Standard Version
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and his concubine, who is in Shechem, hath born to him—even she—a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech.
Surrounding context — Judges 8
28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
31 And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
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וּפִֽילַגְשׁוֹ֙H6370 · pi.le.geshconcubineאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichבִּשְׁכֶ֔םH7927 · she.khemShechemיָֽלְדָה־H3205 · ya.ladto begetלּ֥וֹH9033 · ohimגַם־H1571 · gamalsoהִ֖יאH1931 · huhe/she/itבֵּ֑ןH1121 · benson: childוַיָּ֥שֶׂםH7760 · sumto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שְׁמ֖וֹH8034 · shemnameאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃H40 · a.vi.me.lekhAbimelech
Cross-references
Genesis 16:15And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.Judges 9:1-5And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,Genesis 20:2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She [is] my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.Judges 9:18And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother;)Genesis 22:24And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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