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Forty Years of Peace

Judges 8:31

In 11 translations

BSB
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
KJV
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.called: Heb. set
WEB
His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
ASV
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
LSV
and his concubine, who [is] in Shechem, has borne to him—even she—a son, and he appoints his name Abimelech.
YLT
and his concubine, who [is] in Shechem, hath born to him — even she — a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech.
DBY
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he gave him the name of Abimelech.
DRC
And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.
GNV
And his concubine that was in Shechem, bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech.
JPS
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
LXXE
And his concubine was in Sychem, and she also bore him a son, and gave him the name Abimelech.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּפִֽילַגְשׁוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בִּשְׁכֶ֔ם יָֽלְדָה־לּ֥וֹ גַם־הִ֖יא בֵּ֑ן וַיָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ παλλακὴ αὐτοῦ ἦν ἐν Συχὲμ, καὶ ἔτεκεν αὐτῷ καί γε αὐτὴ υἱὸν, καὶ ἔθηκε τὸ ὄνομα Ἀβιμέλεχ.

Who and where

👤 Abimelech📍 Shechem◆ Usurpation by Abimelech

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 20:2Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
  • Genesis 22:24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Judges 9:18but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your…
  • Judges 9:1–5Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother, “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons…
  • Genesis 16:15And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.

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