2 Chronicles 24:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־שֶׁ֤בַע שָׁנִים֙ יֹאָ֣שׁ בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּֽירוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ צִבְיָ֖ה מִבְּאֵ֥ר שָֽׁבַע׃

Transliteration

Ben-shevaʿ shanim Yoʾash bemalekho weʾarbaʿim shanah malakh in-Yerushalaim and-shem ʾimmo Tsivyah from-Beʾer Shavaʿ

Grammar Details

*Ben*: construct state, masculine, singular - son of
*shevaʿ*: numeral, cardinal - seven
*shanim*: plural of shanah - years
*Yoʾash*: proper name, subject - Joash
*bemalekho*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his becoming king/when he began to reign
*weʾarbaʿim*: conjunction + numeral, cardinal - and forty
*shanah*: feminine, singular - year
*malakh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he reigned
*Yerushalaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
*shem*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - name of
*ʾimmo*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his mother
*Tsivyah*: proper name - Zibiah
*Beʾer*: proper noun, construct - Beer
*Shavaʿ*: proper noun - Sheba

Word Meanings

*Ben*-*shevaʿ* *shanim*: son of seven years/seven years old
*bemalekho*: when he became king/in his reign
*Beʾer* *Shavaʿ*: Beer-sheba (place name)

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 11:21-12:15 : 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. 1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah, 5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 8 And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. 9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah. 10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah. 11 And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of Jehovah, 12 and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it. 13 But there were not made for the house of Jehovah cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah; 14 for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of Jehovah. 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
1 Chr 3:11 : 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

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