Judges 11:40
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That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.

yearly.

Judges 5:11 Where the chariots were dashed together, and the army of the enemies was choked, there let the justices of the Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency towards the brave men of Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the gates, and obtained the sovereignty.

four days

1 Kings 9:25 Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings, upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.

Context
Jephthah's Tragic Vow
39And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept: 40That, from year to year, the daughters of Israel assemble together, and lament the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite, for four days.
Cross References
Judges 11:39
And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:

Judges 12:1
But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.

Lexicon
that each year
מִיָּמִ֣ים ׀ (mî·yā·mîm)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

the young women
בְּנ֣וֹת (bə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

go out
תֵּלַ֙כְנָה֙ (tê·laḵ·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

for four
אַרְבַּ֥עַת (’ar·ba·‘aṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 702: Four

days
יָמִ֖ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

to lament
לְתַנּ֕וֹת (lə·ṯan·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 8567: To ascribe, celebrate, commemorate

the daughter
לְבַת־ (lə·ḇaṯ-)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

of Jephthah
יִפְתָּ֖ח (yip̄·tāḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3316: Jephthah -- 'He opens', a Gileadite, also a city of Judah

the Gileadite.
הַגִּלְעָדִ֑י (hag·gil·‘ā·ḏî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1569: Gileadite -- a descendant of Gilead, also an inhabitant of Gilead


Additional Translations
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

and it was an ordinance in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went from year to year to bewail the daughter of Jephthae the Galaadite for four days in a year.

that from year to year the daughters of Israel go to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.
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