Leviticus 25:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה בְּהַ֥ר סִינַ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃

Transliteration

wə-yədabbēr YHWH unto-Mōšeh in-har Sînay lēʾmōr

Grammar Details

• *wə-yədabbēr*: conjunction + piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he spoke
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, Moses
• *har*: construct form, mountain of
• *Sînay*: proper noun, Sinai
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to say/saying

Word Meanings

• *wə-yədabbēr*: and spoke/and was speaking/and continued to speak
• *lēʾmōr*: saying/commanding/instructing

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:1 : 1 In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
• Num 1:1 : 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
• Num 10:11-12 : 11 And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
• Gal 4:24-25 : 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are {G1242} two covenants; {G3303} one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.