4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, 1 wife of Lappidoth, was 2 leading 3 Israel at that time.
17:7 There was a young man from Bethlehem 4 in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah. 5
1 tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.
2 tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.
3 tn Or “judging.”
4 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
5 tn Heb “There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, from the tribe of Judah, and he was a Levite, and he was temporarily residing there.”