4Q439 — a non-biblical text from Qumran Cave 4, in Hebrew.
Square brackets mark reconstruction. Letters inside brackets are the editors’ restoration; a bracketed ellipsis […] stands where a word is lost altogether.
Hebrew · Dead Sea Scrolls
4Q439
Abegg, Bowley and Cook · every word parsed
Fragment f1i+2
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[…] [ל]אספ צדי[קי] עמ׳י ולהקים דרך
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חיים […] [ו][ל][העבי]ר בברית אנשי סוד׳י׃ וכול מלוש
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ו… […] [ו][י]ורש לנחלת׳י׃ על כן עינ׳י מקור מים
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[…] [ב]מוסר והעומדים אחרי׳הם אשר
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[…] והנה כול עיר׳י נהפכה לסירים […][׃]
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[…] [ה]נה כול שופט׳י נמצאו אויל[ים] […]
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# ו צדיק׳י פותיים אש[ר] […]
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… בוגדים […]׃
Fragment f1ii
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נאמנ […]
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והתנק[ם] […]
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גורל׳ם # […]׃
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Transcriptions and morphology: Martin G. Abegg, Jr., James E. Bowley and Edward M. Cook, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Biblical and Non-Biblical Texts. Text-Fabric edition by Jarod Jacobs, Martijn Naaijer and Dirk Roorda, ETCBC, used by permission under CC BY-NC 4.0. Dictionary: Brown-Driver-Briggs. Square brackets mark letters reconstructed by the editors rather than preserved on the manuscript.
The words of this chapter
37 distinct words — each links to every other place it occurs.
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