2 Chronicles 29:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now they began on the first [day] of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Jehovah; and they sanctified the house of Jehovah in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַ֠יָּחֵלּוּ בְּאֶחָ֞ד לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן֮ לְקַדֵּשׁ֒ וּבְי֧וֹם שְׁמוֹנָ֣ה לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ בָּ֚אוּ לְאוּלָ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה וַיְקַדְּשׁ֥וּ אֶת־בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה לְיָמִ֣ים שְׁמוֹנָ֑ה וּבְי֨וֹם שִׁשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן כִּלּֽוּ׃

Transliteration

And ḥālal on-first to-ḥōdeš the-rīʾšôn to-qādaš, and-on-day eight to-the-ḥōdeš bōʾ to-ʾûlām YHWH and qādaš ʾet-bêt-YHWH for-days eight; and-on-day sixteen to-ḥōdeš the-rīʾšôn kālâ.

Grammar Details

*ḥālal*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - 'they began'
*ḥōdeš*: noun masculine singular - 'month'
*rīʾšôn*: adjective masculine singular with definite article - 'the first'
*qādaš*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - 'they sanctified'
*bōʾ*: Qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they came'
*ʾûlām*: noun masculine singular construct - 'porch/vestibule of'
*bêt*-*YHWH*: construct state - 'house of YHWH'
*kālâ*: Piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they finished'

Word Meanings

*ḥālal*: began, started
*ḥōdeš*: month, new moon
*rīʾšôn*: first, primary, chief
*qādaš*: sanctify, consecrate, make holy
*bōʾ*: came, entered
*ʾûlām*: porch, vestibule, entrance hall
*kālâ*: finished, completed, ended

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Referenced Verses

Exod 12:2-8 : 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household: 4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
1 Kgs 6:3 : 3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of the temple], and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner chambers thereof, and of the [ place] [of the mercy-seat;]
2 Chr 3:4 : 4 And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chr 29:3 : 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
2 Chr 29:7 : 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

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