1 Chronicles 11:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֤י יְבוּס֙ לְדָוִ֔יד לֹ֥א תָב֖וֹא הֵ֑נָּה וַיִּלְכֹּ֤ד דָּוִיד֙ אֶת־מְצֻדַ֣ת צִיּ֔וֹן הִ֖יא עִ֥יר דָּוִֽיד

Transliteration

And-wayyō'mᵊrû yōšᵊḇê Yᵊḇûs to-Dāwîd, Not ṯāḇô' here; and-wayyilkōḏ Dāwîd 'eṯ-mᵊṣuḏaṯ Ṣiyyôn, she ʿîr Dāwîd

Grammar Details

• *wayyō'mᵊrû*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - and they said
• *yōšᵊḇê*: Qal participle masculine plural construct - dwellers of/inhabitants of
• *Yᵊḇûs*: proper noun - Jebus
• *ṯāḇô'*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will come/enter
• *wayyilkōḏ*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and he captured
• *mᵊṣuḏaṯ*: noun feminine singular construct - stronghold of
• *Ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *ʿîr*: noun feminine singular construct - city of

Word Meanings

• *wayyō'mᵊrû*: and they said/spoke/commanded
• *yōšᵊḇê*: dwellers of/inhabitants of/residents of
• *ṯāḇô'*: you will come/enter/arrive
• *wayyilkōḏ*: and he captured/seized/took
• *mᵊṣuḏaṯ*: stronghold of/fortress of/citadel of
• *ʿîr*: city of/town of

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 17:9-9 : 9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
• 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
• 2 Sam 6:10 : 10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
• 2 Sam 6:12 : 12 And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
• 1 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
• 1 Chr 11:7 : 7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.
• 2 Chr 5:2 : 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
• Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Ps 9:11 : 11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
• Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
• Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Walk about{H8798)} Zion, and go round about{H8685)} her: tell{H8798)} the towers thereof. 13 Mark{H8798)} ye well her bulwarks, consider{H8761)} her palaces; that ye may tell{H8762)} it to the generation following.
• Ps 78:68 : 68 But chose{H8799)} the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved{H8804)}.
• Ps 87:2 : 2 The LORD loveth{H8802)} the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Ps 87:5 : 5 And of Zion it shall be said{H8735)}, This and that man was born{H8795)} in her: and the highest himself shall establish{H8787)} her.
• Ps 122:5 : 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
• Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
• Ps 132:13 : 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
• Lam 4:11-12 : 11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
• Rom 9:33 : 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• Rev 14:1 : 1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.