Judges 18:8
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And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:

Zorah and Eshtaol

Judges 18:2,11 So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men, of their stock and family, from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it diligently: and they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on their way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the house of Michas, and rested there: . . .

Judges 13:2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

Judges 16:31 And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

Context
The Danites Settle in Laish
7So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men. 8And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:9Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.…
Cross References
Joshua 15:33
But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

Judges 18:7
So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men.

Judges 18:9
Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.

Lexicon
When the men returned
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (way·yā·ḇō·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

Zorah
צָרְעָ֖ה (ṣā·rə·‘āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6881: Zorah -- a city exchanged by Judah and Dan

and Eshtaol,
וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל (wə·’eš·tā·’ōl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 847: Eshtaol -- to found, establish

their brothers
אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם (’ă·ḥê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

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

them,
לָהֶ֛ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

“What
מָ֥ה (māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

did you find?”
אַתֶּֽם׃ (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you


Additional Translations
When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”And they came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What say you?

And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What'say ye?

And the five men came to their brethren to Saraa and Esthaol, and said to their brethren, Why sit ye here idle?

-- And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?

And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

And they came to their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said to them, What say ye?

They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, "What do you say?"

And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, 'What -- ye?'
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