2 Chronicles 29:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַ֠יָּחֵלּוּ בְּאֶחָ֞ד לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן֮ לְקַדֵּשׁ֒ וּבְי֧וֹם שְׁמוֹנָ֣ה לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ בָּ֚אוּ לְאוּלָ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה וַיְקַדְּשׁ֥וּ אֶת־בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה לְיָמִ֣ים שְׁמוֹנָ֑ה וּבְי֨וֹם שִׁשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן כִּלּֽוּ׃

Transliteration

And ḥālal on-first to-ḥōdeš the-rīʾšôn to-qādaš, and-on-day eight to-the-ḥōdeš bōʾ to-ʾûlām YHWH and qādaš ʾet-bêt-YHWH for-days eight; and-on-day sixteen to-ḥōdeš the-rīʾšôn kālâ.

Grammar Details

*ḥālal*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - 'they began'
*ḥōdeš*: noun masculine singular - 'month'
*rīʾšôn*: adjective masculine singular with definite article - 'the first'
*qādaš*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - 'they sanctified'
*bōʾ*: Qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they came'
*ʾûlām*: noun masculine singular construct - 'porch/vestibule of'
*bêt*-*YHWH*: construct state - 'house of YHWH'
*kālâ*: Piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they finished'

Word Meanings

*ḥālal*: began, started
*ḥōdeš*: month, new moon
*rīʾšôn*: first, primary, chief
*qādaš*: sanctify, consecrate, make holy
*bōʾ*: came, entered
*ʾûlām*: porch, vestibule, entrance hall
*kālâ*: finished, completed, ended

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Referenced Verses

Exod 12:2-8 : 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
1 Kgs 6:3 : 3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
2 Chr 3:4 : 4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chr 29:3 : 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
2 Chr 29:7 : 7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

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