Jeremiah 39:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month, the city’s walls were breached.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּעַשְׁתֵּֽי־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ לְצִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרְבִיעִ֖י בְּתִשְׁעָ֣ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָבְקְעָ֖ה הָעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

In ʿaštê-ʿeśrēh šānāh to ṣidqiyyāhū, in ḥōdeš the rəbîʿî, in tišʿāh to-the-ḥōdeš, hābqəʿāh the-ʿîr.

Grammar Details

• *ʿaštê*-*ʿeśrēh*: cardinal number, feminine - eleven
• *šānāh*: noun, feminine, singular - year
• *ṣidqiyyāhū*: proper name, masculine - Zedekiah
• *ḥōdeš*: noun, masculine, singular - month
• *rəbîʿî*: ordinal number, masculine, singular - fourth
• *tišʿāh*: cardinal number - nine/ninth
• *hābqəʿāh*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - was breached/broken through
• *ʿîr*: noun, feminine, singular with definite article - the city

Word Meanings

• *hābqəʿāh*: was breached/broken into/broken through
• *ʿîr*: city/town

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And in the xi. yeare of Sedechias in the fourth Moneth ye ix. daye of ye Moneth, he brake in to the cite).

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And in the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And in the eleuenth yere of Zedekia, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, he brake into the citie)

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)

• World English Bible (2000)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 25:3-4 : 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city had become severe, and there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then the city wall was breached, and all the warriors fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were surrounding the city. They escaped toward the Arabah.
• Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.
• Jer 52:6-7 : 6 By the fourth month, on the ninth day, the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no more food for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was breached, and though the Chaldeans surrounded it, all the soldiers fled by night through the gate between the two walls, near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah.
• Ezek 33:21 : 21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, 'The city has fallen!'
• Mic 2:12-13 : 12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture—a noisy throng of people. 13 The one who breaks through will go before them; they will burst out, pass through the gate, and go out by it. Their king will pass before them, and the LORD will lead the way.
• Zeph 1:10 : 10 On that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a loud crash from the hills.