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Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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giḏ·‘ō·wn ben- yō·w·’āš way·yā·māṯ ṭō·w·ḇāh bə·śê·ḇāh way·yiq·qā·ḇêr bə·qe·ḇer ’ā·ḇîw yō·w·’āš bə·‘ā·p̄ə·rāh ’ă·ḇî hā·‘ez·rî
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√ Gidʻôwn — Gidon, an IsraeliteNounpropermasculine singular
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Yôwʼâsh — Joash, the name of six IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
√ mûwth — to die (literally or figuratively)Conjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
mûwth — to die (Qal consecutive imperfect) The bare verb that ends a judge's cycle. Judges has a fixed rhythm — the land had rest, then the deliverer dies, then Israel relapses — and this single word is the hinge on which the rhythm turns here; v. 33 opens by repeating the same root (mêṯ) as a perfect, “was dead,” to make the causal link explicit. Ellicott: Gideon “died in peace and prosperity… but the evil seed which he had sown bore bitter fruit in the next generation.”
√ ṭôwb — good (as an adjective) in the widest senseAdjectivefeminine singular
√ sêybâh — old agePreposition-bNounfeminine singular
sêybâh — grey hair, hoary head Paired with ṭôwbâh it forms the patriarchal blessing-formula: promised to Abraham (Genesis 15:15) and fulfilled at his death (Genesis 25:8), spoken again over David (1 Chronicles 29:28) — the honoured death of a man gathered to his people. Poole reads it as the reward: “his long life being crowned with the continuance of his honour.” ⚙ Note that the book grants Gideon the patriarchs' epitaph and then, four verses later, denies his house the patriarchs' inheritance.
√ qâbar — to interConjunctive wawVerbNifalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
qâbar — to inter (Niphal) Burial in the father's grave is the mark of a death that is not under judgment; Gideon goes down to Joash's tomb in the very town where he tore down Joash's Baal-altar (Judges 6:25–32). The Niphal is agentless — Israel's last act toward him is recorded without Israel's name attached.
√ qeber — a sepulchrePreposition-bNounmasculine singular construct
√ ʼâb — father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationNounmasculine singular constructthird person masculine singular
ʼâb — father Construct with the suffix: “the grave of his father.”
√ Yôwʼâsh — Joash, the name of six IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
√ ʻOphrâh — Ophrah, the name of an Israelite and of two places in PalestinePreposition-bNounproperfeminine singular
ʻOphrâh — Ophrah (rare: 8 vv) The place-name that frames Gideon's whole life: the winepress and the angel (Judges 6:11), the altar Jehovah-Shalom (Judges 6:24), the ephod that “became a snare” to Gideon's house (Judges 8:27), and now the grave. A rare word doing structural work — the Verifier confirms the shared lexeme with all three.
√ ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy — an Abiezrite or descendant of Abiezer
√ ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy — an Abiezrite or descendant of AbiezerNounpropermasculine singular
ʼĂbîy hâ-ʻEzrîy — Abiezrite (rare: 3 vv) One of the rarest lexemes in the unit. It ties this verse to Judges 6:11 and 6:24 with a verbal link no motif-reading is needed to establish: the man dies among exactly the kin who first called him to account for the broken altar.