Leviticus 23:2

American Standard Version (1901)

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִקְרָאֵ֣י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מוֹעֲדָֽי׃

Transliteration

dabbēr ʾel-bənê Yiśrāʾēl wə-ʾāmartā ʾălēhem môʿădê YHWH ʾăšer-tiqrəʾû ʾōtām miqrāʾê qōdeš ʾēlleh hēm môʿădāy

Grammar Details

• *dabbēr*: Piel imperative, masculine singular - speak/say
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
• *bənê*: construct noun, masculine plural - sons of/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wə-ʾāmartā*: waw consecutive + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall say
• *ʾălēhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - unto them
• *môʿădê*: construct noun, masculine plural - appointed times/feasts of
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that/whom
• *tiqrəʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall call/proclaim
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *miqrāʾê*: construct noun, masculine plural - convocations/assemblies of
• *qōdeš*: noun, masculine singular - holiness/sacredness
• *ʾēlleh*: demonstrative pronoun, plural - these
• *hēm*: 3rd person masculine plural pronoun - they/these
• *môʿădāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st singular suffix - my appointed times/feasts

Word Meanings

• *môʿădê*: appointed times/feasts/festivals/seasonal celebrations
• *tiqrəʾû*: you shall call/proclaim/announce/summon
• *miqrāʾê*: convocations/holy assemblies/sacred gatherings
• *qōdeš*: holiness/sacredness/that which is set apart

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:4 : 4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season.
• Lev 23:37 : 37 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day;
• Hos 2:11 : 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.
• Exod 23:14-17 : 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty: 16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
• Num 10:10 : 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Jehovah your God.
• Num 29:39 : 39 These ye shall offer unto Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.
• Joel 2:15 : 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
• Jonah 3:5-9 : 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
• Nah 1:15 : 15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
• John 5:1 : 1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• Col 2:1 : 1 For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
• 2 Kgs 10:20 : 20 And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
• 2 Chr 30:5 : 5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it [ in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
• Exod 32:5 : 5 And when Aaron saw [this], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.
• Lev 23:21 : 21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Isa 1:13-14 : 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,-- I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. [ 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
• Isa 33:20 : 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
• Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
• Lev 23:44 : 44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the set feasts of Jehovah.
• Num 10:2-3 : 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them: and thou shalt use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.