Ezra 1:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ כּ֔וֹרֶשׁ הוֹצִ֖יא אֶת־כְּלֵ֣י בֵית־יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הוֹצִ֤יא נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙ מִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֖ם בְּבֵ֥ית אֱלֹהָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And the melek kōreš hōṣî ʾeth-kǝlê bêth-YHWH which hōṣî nǝḇûkadneṣṣar from yǝrûšālaim and yittǝnēm in bêth ʾĕlōhāyw

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *ha*: definite article - the
• *melek*: masculine singular - king
• *kōreš*: proper noun - Cyrus
• *hōṣî*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - brought out
• *ʾeth*: direct object marker
• *kǝlê*: masculine plural construct - vessels of
• *bêth*: construct state, masculine singular - house of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *nǝḇûkadneṣṣar*: proper noun - Nebuchadnezzar
• *mi*: preposition - from
• *yǝrûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *wa*: consecutive conjunction
• *yittǝnēm*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, qal with waw consecutive and 3rd masculine plural suffix - put them/placed them
• *bə*: preposition - in
• *ʾĕlōhāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his gods

Word Meanings

• *hōṣî*: brought out/removed/took out
• *kǝlê*: vessels/articles/utensils
• *yittǝnēm*: put them/placed them/set them
• *ʾĕlōhāyw*: his gods/his deity [referring to pagan deity]

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 24:13 : 13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
• 2 Chr 36:7 : 7 And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.
• Ezra 5:14 : 14 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple which was in Jerusalem, and put into the house of his god in Babylon, these Cyrus the king took from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler;
• Ezra 6:5 : 5 And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.
• 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 36:18 : 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.
• 2 Kgs 25:13-16 : 13 And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. 14 And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. 15 And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. 16 The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
• Jer 27:21-22 : 21 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem: 22 They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.
• Jer 28:3-6 : 3 In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon: 4 And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken. 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord, 6 The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.
• Dan 1:2 : 2 And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.
• Dan 5:2-3 : 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. 3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them.
• Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;