1 Chronicles 26:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֻׁפִּ֤ים וּלְחֹסָה֙ לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔ב עִ֚ם שַׁ֣עַר שַׁלֶּ֔כֶת בַּֽמְסִלָּ֖ה הָעוֹלָ֑ה מִשְׁמָ֖ר לְעֻמַּ֥ת מִשְׁמָֽר׃

Transliteration

To-šuppîm and-to-ḥōsāh to-the-maʿărāḇ with šaʿar šalleḵet in-the-mĕsillāh the-ʿôlāh; mišmār lĕʿummat mišmār.

Grammar Details

*šuppîm*: proper name, masculine singular with prefixed preposition - to Shuppim
*ḥōsāh*: proper name, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction and preposition - and to Hosah
*maʿărāḇ*: masculine singular noun with definite article and prefixed preposition - to the west
*šaʿar*: masculine singular construct - gate of
*šalleḵet*: proper name or feminine singular noun - Shallecheth
*mĕsillāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article and prefixed preposition - by the causeway
*ʿôlāh*: Qal participle feminine singular with definite article - the ascending/rising
*mišmār*: masculine singular noun - watch/guard
*lĕʿummat*: preposition - opposite/corresponding to

Word Meanings

*šaʿar šalleḵet*: Shallecheth gate/gate of casting out
*mĕsillāh*: causeway/highway/raised road
*mišmār lĕʿummat mišmār*: watch opposite watch/guard alongside guard/post corresponding to post

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 10:5 : 5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
1 Chr 25:8 : 8 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
1 Chr 26:10-12 : 10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief,(for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;) 11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen. 12 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
2 Chr 9:4 : 4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
Neh 12:24 : 24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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17Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.
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1 Chr 26:11-15
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11Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
12Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
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1 Chr 9:26
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