1 Kings 8:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאָשִׂ֨ם שָׁ֤ם מָקוֹם֙ לָֽאָר֔וֹן אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם בְּרִ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר כָּרַת֙ עִם־אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ אֹתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ ס

Transliteration

And wāʾāśîm there māqôm for-lāʾārôn which-there bərîṯ YHWH which kāraṯ with-ʾăḇōṯênû in-bəhôṣîʾô ʾōṯām from-ʾereṣ Miṣrāyim

Grammar Details

*wāʾāśîm*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 1st person singular - and I set/established
*šām*: adverb - there
*māqôm*: masculine singular noun - place
*lāʾārôn*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - for the ark
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*bərîṯ*: feminine singular construct - covenant of
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*kāraṯ*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he cut/made
*ʿim*: preposition - with
*ʾăḇōṯênû*: masculine plural noun + 1st person plural suffix - our fathers
*bəhôṣîʾô*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his bringing out
*ʾōṯām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
*ʾereṣ*: feminine singular construct - land of
*Miṣrāyim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

*wāʾāśîm*: and I set/placed/established
*māqôm*: place/location/site
*ʾārôn*: ark/chest/box
*bərîṯ*: covenant/agreement/treaty
*kāraṯ*: he cut/made/established [a covenant]
*bəhôṣîʾô*: in his bringing out/when he brought out

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Referenced Verses

Deut 31:26 : 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
1 Kgs 8:9 : 9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kgs 8:5-6 : 5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
Exod 34:28 : 28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Deut 9:9 : 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deut 9:11 : 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

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