Discovery BoxJudges 4:4 
Context4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, 1 wife of Lappidoth, was 2 leading 3 Israel at that time.
Judges 11:4
Context11:4 It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.
Judges 15:3
Context15:3 Samson said to them, 4 “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” 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 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”
5 tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”
