1 Chronicles 19:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּשְׂכְּר֣וּ לָהֶ֡ם שְׁנַיִם֩ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֜לֶף רֶ֗כֶב וְאֶת־מֶ֤לֶךְ מַעֲכָה֙ וְאֶת־עַמּ֔וֹ וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ לִפְנֵ֣י מֵידְבָ֑א וּבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֗וֹן נֶאֶסְפוּ֙ מֵעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ לַמִּלְחָמָֽה

Transliteration

wə-yiśkərû lāhem šənayim û-šəlōšîm ʾelef rekeb wə-ʾet-melek Maʿăkāh wə-ʾet-ʿammô, wə-yābōʾû wə-yaḥănû before-Mêdəbāʾ, û-bənê ʿammôn neʾespû from-ʿārêhem wə-yābōʾû la-milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

*wə-yiśkərû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural with waw-consecutive - and they hired
*lāhem*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - for themselves
*šənayim û-šəlōšîm*: number + conjunction + number - thirty-two
*ʾelef*: number - thousand
*rekeb*: noun, masculine singular - chariots
*wə-ʾet-melek*: conjunction + direct object marker + noun, masculine singular construct - and the king of
*Maʿăkāh*: proper noun - Maacah
*wə-ʾet-ʿammô*: conjunction + direct object marker + noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his people
*wə-yābōʾû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural with waw-consecutive - and they came
*wə-yaḥănû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural with waw-consecutive - and they camped
*Mêdəbāʾ*: proper noun - Medeba
*û-bənê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and the sons of
*ʿammôn*: proper noun - Ammon
*neʾespû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they gathered themselves
*ʿārêhem*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their cities
*la-milḥāmāh*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - for/to the battle

Word Meanings

*rekeb*: chariots/chariotry/war vehicles
*yaḥănû*: they camped/pitched camp/encamped
*neʾespû*: they gathered/assembled/came together
*milḥāmāh*: battle/war/fighting

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Referenced Verses

Num 21:30 : 30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Which [reacheth] unto Medeba.
Josh 13:9 : 9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Josh 13:16 : 16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Judg 4:3 : 3 And the sons of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel.
1 Sam 13:5 : 5 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore {H8193} in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.
2 Sam 10:6 : 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
1 Chr 18:4 : 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.
2 Chr 14:9 : 9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came unto Mareshah.
Ps 20:7-9 : 7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God. 8 They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call.
Isa 15:2 : 2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Exod 14:9 : 9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

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6And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
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6And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
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1 Chr 19:8-9
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1 Sam 13:5
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