And it came to pass in those days
yowm (yome)
a day (as the warm hours),
when there was no king
melek (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
in Israel
Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale')
he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
that there was a certain
'iysh (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Levite
Leviyiy (lay-vee-ee')
a Levite or descendant of Levi -- Leviite.
sojourning
guwr (goor)
to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid)
on the side
yrekah (yer-ay-kaw')
the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or recess -- border, coast, part, quarter, side.
of mount
har (har)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) -- hill (country), mount(-ain), promotion.
Ephraim
'Ephrayim (ef-rah'-yim)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory -- Ephraim, Ephraimites.
who took
laqach (law-kakh')
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
to him a concubine
'ishshah (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
piylegesh (pee-leh'-ghesh)
a concubine; also (masculine) a paramour -- concubine, paramour.
out of Bethlehemjudah
Beyth Lechem (bayth leh'-khem)
house of bread; Beth-Lechem, a place in Palestine -- Beth-lehem.
Yhuwdah (yeh-hoo-daw')
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory -- Judah.
