1 Chronicles 11:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֤י יְבוּס֙ לְדָוִ֔יד לֹ֥א תָב֖וֹא הֵ֑נָּה וַיִּלְכֹּ֤ד דָּוִיד֙ אֶת־מְצֻדַ֣ת צִיּ֔וֹן הִ֖יא עִ֥יר דָּוִֽיד

Transliteration

And-wayyō'mᵊrû yōšᵊḇê Yᵊḇûs to-Dāwîd, Not ṯāḇô' here; and-wayyilkōḏ Dāwîd 'eṯ-mᵊṣuḏaṯ Ṣiyyôn, she ʿîr Dāwîd

Grammar Details

*wayyō'mᵊrû*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - and they said
*yōšᵊḇê*: Qal participle masculine plural construct - dwellers of/inhabitants of
*Yᵊḇûs*: proper noun - Jebus
*ṯāḇô'*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will come/enter
*wayyilkōḏ*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he captured
*mᵊṣuḏaṯ*: noun feminine singular construct - stronghold of
*Ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
*ʿîr*: noun feminine singular construct - city of

Word Meanings

*wayyō'mᵊrû*: and they said/spoke/commanded
*yōšᵊḇê*: dwellers of/inhabitants of/residents of
*ṯāḇô'*: you will come/enter/arrive
*wayyilkōḏ*: and he captured/seized/took
*mᵊṣuḏaṯ*: stronghold of/fortress of/citadel of
*ʿîr*: city of/town of

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 17:9-9 : 9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
2 Sam 5:9 : 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
2 Sam 6:10 : 10 So David would not remove the ark of Jehovah unto him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Sam 6:12 : 12 And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.
1 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Chr 11:7 : 7 And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
2 Chr 5:2 : 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
Ps 9:11 : 11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.
Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof; 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.
Ps 78:68 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
Ps 87:2 : 2 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Ps 87:5 : 5 Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; And the Most High himself will establish her.
Ps 122:5 : 5 For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A Song of Ascents. They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for evermore.
Ps 132:13 : 13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.
Lam 4:11-12 : 11 Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
Rom 9:33 : 33 even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
Heb 12:22 : 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
Rev 14:1 : 1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

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