1 Kings 15:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַרְבָּעִ֤ים וְאַחַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ מַעֲכָ֖ה בַּת־אֲבִישָׁלֽוֹם׃

Transliteration

And-ʾarbāʿîm and-ʾaḥat shānâ mālak in-yәrûshālāim and-shēm ʾimmô maʿăkâ bat-ʾăvîshālôm.

Grammar Details

*ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
*ʾaḥat*: cardinal number, feminine singular - one
*shānâ*: noun, feminine singular - year
*mālak*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - reigned/became king
*yәrûshālāim*: proper name with prefixed preposition bә- (in) - Jerusalem
*shēm*: noun, masculine singular - name
*ʾimmô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his mother
*maʿăkâ*: proper name - Maacah
*bat*: noun, feminine construct - daughter of
*ʾăvîshālôm*: proper name - Abishalom

Word Meanings

*ʾarbāʿîm*: forty
*ʾaḥat*: one
*shānâ*: year
*mālak*: reigned/became king/ruled
*shēm*: name
*ʾimmô*: his mother
*bat*: daughter of

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 15:2 : 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chr 11:20-21 : 20 And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. 21 And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines, and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters.)
2 Chr 13:2 : 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
2Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
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1 Kgs 15:8-9
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8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
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2 Kgs 15:1-2
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1In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
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2 Kgs 15:33
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33Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
2 Chr 14:1-2
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1So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
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1 Kgs 22:41-42
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2 Chr 15:16
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1 Kgs 15:13
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