Haggai 2:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׂימוּ־נָ֣א לְבַבְכֶ֔ם מִן־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה מִיּוֹם֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֜ה לַתְּשִׁיעִ֗י לְמִן־הַיּ֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יֻסַּ֥ד הֵֽיכַל־יְהוָ֖ה שִׂ֥ימוּ לְבַבְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

śîmû-nāʾ ləbabkem from-hayyôm hazzeh and-māʿəlāh from-day ʿeśrîm and-ʾarbāʿāh to-hattəšîʿî to-from-hayyôm ʾăšer-yussad hêkal-YHWH śîmû ləbabkem

Grammar Details

*śîmû*: verb, qal imperative, masculine plural - set/place/consider
*nāʾ*: particle - please/now
*ləbabkem*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your heart
*hayyôm*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the day
*hazzeh*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
*māʿəlāh*: adverb - upward/backward/onward
*ʿeśrîm*: cardinal number - twenty
*ʾarbāʿāh*: cardinal number, feminine - four
*hattəšîʿî*: definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular - the ninth [month]
*yussad*: verb, pual perfect, 3rd masculine singular - was founded
*hêkal*: construct noun, masculine singular - temple of
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD

Word Meanings

*śîmû-nāʾ ləbabkem*: consider carefully/set your heart
*māʿəlāh*: onward/forward/upward
*yussad*: was founded/was laid/was established

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Referenced Verses

Zech 8:9 : 9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Hag 2:15 : 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
Zech 8:12 : 12 For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
Ezra 5:1-2 : 1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [prophesied they] unto them. 2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
Hag 1:14-15 : 14 And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God, 15 in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth [month], in the second year of Darius the king.
Hag 2:10 : 10 In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Luke 15:17-20 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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