Ezekiel 30:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֗י בְּאַחַ֤ת עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה בָּֽרִאשׁ֖וֹן בְּשִׁבְעָ֣ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָיָ֥ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר׃

Transliteration

wa-yəhî bə-ʾaḥat ʿeśrēh šānāh bā-rʾišôn bə-šiḇʿāh la-ḥōḏeš hāyāh dəḇar-YHWH ʾēlay lēʾmōr

Grammar Details

*wa-yəhî*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular apocopated - and it happened
*bə-ʾaḥat*: preposition + cardinal number, feminine singular construct - in the eleventh
*ʿeśrēh*: cardinal number, feminine singular - ten
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*bā-rʾišôn*: preposition + definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular - in the first (month)
*bə-šiḇʿāh*: preposition + cardinal number, feminine singular - on the seventh
*la-ḥōḏeš*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - of the month
*hāyāh*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - was/came
*dəḇar*-*YHWH*: noun, masculine singular construct + divine name - word of YHWH
*ʾēlay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
*lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - saying

Word Meanings

*dəḇar*: word/speech/matter/thing

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 26:1 : 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezek 29:17 : 17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezek 29:1 : 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezek 31:1 : 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Ezek 1:2 : 2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

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