Haggai 2:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of hosts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִ֥י הַכֶּ֖סֶף וְלִ֣י הַזָּהָ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

To-me hakkesef and-to-me hazzāhāb nəʾum YHWH ṣəbāʾôt

Grammar Details

• *hakkesef*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the silver
• *hazzāhāb*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the gold
• *nəʾum*: construct noun, masculine singular - declaration of
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies

Word Meanings

• *lî*: to me/mine is
• *nəʾum*: declaration of/says

Referenced Verses

• Ps 50:10-12 : 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
• Isa 60:13 : 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
• Isa 60:17 : 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
• Ps 24:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.
• 1 Kgs 6:20-35 : 20 And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, {H6086} each ten cubits high. 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without. 30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. 31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: {H6086} the lintel [and] door-posts were a fifth part [of the wall]. 32 So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; {H6086} and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees. 33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, {H6086} out of a fourth part [of the wall]; 34 and two doors of fir-wood: {H6086} the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
• 1 Chr 29:14-16 : 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. 16 O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name cometh of thy hand, and is all thine own.