2 Chronicles 13:17
Strong's Lexicon
Then Abijah
אֲבִיָּ֥ה (’ă·ḇî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 29: Abia or Abiah or Abijah = 'Jehovah is (my) father' 1) king of Judah, son and successor of Rehoboam 2) second son of Samuel 3) son of Jeroboam the first, king of Israel 4) son of Becher, a Benjamite 5) head of a priestly house (one of the 24 Levite groups) 6) head of a priestly house (after the exile) 7) wife of Hezron 8) mother of Hezekiah (cf H021)

and his people
וְעַמּ֖וֹ (wə·‘am·mōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men 2) kinsman, kindred

struck
וַיַּכּ֥וּ (way·yak·kū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5221: 1) to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill 1a)(Niphal) to be stricken or smitten 1b) (Pual) to be stricken or smitten 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to smite, strike, beat, scourge, clap, applaud, give a thrust 1c2) to smite, kill, slay (man or beast) 1c3) to smite, attack, attack and destroy, conquer, subjugate, ravage 1c4) to smite, chastise, send judgment upon, punish, destroy 1d) (Hophal) to be smitten 1d1) to receive a blow 1d2) to be wounded 1d3) to be beaten 1d4) to be (fatally) smitten, be killed, be slain 1d5) to be attacked and captured 1d6) to be smitten (with disease) 1d7) to be blighted (of plants)

them
בָהֶ֛ם (ḇā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew :

with a mighty
רַבָּ֑ה (rab·bāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7227: adj 1) much, many, great 1a) much 1b) many 1c) abounding in 1d) more numerous than 1e) abundant, enough 1f) great 1g) strong 1h) greater than adv 1i) much, exceedingly n m 2) captain, chief

blow,
מַכָּ֣ה (mak·kāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4347: 1) blow, wound, slaughter 1a) blow, stripe 1b) beating, scourging 1c) wound 1d) slaughter 1e) defeat, conquest 1f) plague

and 500,000
חֲמֵשׁ־ (ḥă·mêš-)
Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2568: 1) five 1a) five (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of five (with another number) 1c) fifth (ordinal number)

מֵא֥וֹת (mê·’ō·wṯ)
Number - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3967: 1) hundred 1a) as simple number 1b) as part of larger number 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100)

אֶ֖לֶף (’e·lep̄)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 505: 1) a thousand 1a) as numeral 2) a thousand, company 2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops

choice
בָּחֽוּר׃ (bā·ḥūr)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 970: 1) youth, young man

men
אִ֥ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: 1) man 1a) man, male (in contrast to woman, female) 1b) husband 1c) human being, person (in contrast to God) 1d) servant 1e) mankind 1f) champion 1g) great man 2) whosoever 3) each (adjective)

of Israel
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (mî·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel = 'God prevails' 1) the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel 2) the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob 2a) the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split 2b) the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah 2c) the name of the nation after the return from exile

fell
וַיִּפְּל֤וּ (way·yip·pə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5307: 1) to fall, lie, be cast down, fail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to fall 1a2) to fall (of violent death) 1a3) to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before 1a4) to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to, go away to, fall into the hand of 1a5) to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result 1a6) to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to 1a7) to lie, lie prostrate 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate 1b2) to overthrow 1b3) to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot 1b4) to let drop, cause to fail (fig.) 1b5) to cause to fall 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon 1c2) to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself 1d) (Pilel) to fall

slain.
חֲלָלִים֙ (ḥă·lā·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2491: n m 1) slain, fatally wounded, pierced 1a) pierced, fatally wounded 1b) slain adj 2) (CLBL) profaned 2a) defiled, profaned (by divorce)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

Young's Literal Translation
and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 choice men of Israel were killed.

New American Standard Bible
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

King James Bible
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel's able men.

New Living Translation
Abijah and his army inflicted heavy losses on them; 500,000 of Israel's select troops were killed that day.

English Standard Version
Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.

New American Standard Bible
Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

King James Bible
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 choice men of Israel were killed.

International Standard Version
Abijah and his army defeated them in a tremendous slaughter that resulted in 500,000 special forces from Israel being slain.

NET Bible
Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.

American Standard Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

English Revised Version
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

Young's Literal Translation
and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
















Cross References
2 Chronicles 13:16
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

2 Chronicles 13:18
Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

2 Chronicles 13:15
Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2 Chronicles 13:14
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

2 Chronicles 13:19
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.

2 Chronicles 13:20
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
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