Leviticus 25:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And the LORD 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, when 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 the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, 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 on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
• Gal 4:24-25 : 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.