Judges 9:12
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And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.

Context
Jotham's Parable
11And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? 12And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.13And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?…
Cross References
Judges 9:11
And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?

Judges 9:13
And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?

Lexicon
Then the trees
הָעֵצִ֖ים (hā·‘ê·ṣîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood

said
וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to the grapevine,
לַגָּ֑פֶן (lag·gā·p̄en)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1612: A vine, the grape

‘Come
לְכִי־ (lə·ḵî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

and reign
מָלְכִ֥י (mā·lə·ḵî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4427: To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, to induct into royalty, to take counsel

over us.’
עָלֵֽינוּ׃ (‘ā·lê·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against


Additional Translations
Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’Then said the trees to the vine, Come you, and reign over us.

And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

And the trees said to the vine, Come, reign over us.

Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.

And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

Then said the trees to the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

"The trees said to the vine, 'Come and reign over us.'

'And the trees say to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.
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