2 Kings 11:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְצַוֵּ֣ם לֵאמֹ֔ר זֶ֥ה הַדָּבָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשׂ֑וּן הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֤ית מִכֶּם֙ בָּאֵ֣י הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת וְשֹׁ֣מְרֵ֔י מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת בֵּ֥ית הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Transliteration

And wayəṣawwēm lēʾmōr: This the-dābār that taʿăśûn: The-šəlišît from-you bāʾê the-šabbāt and šōmərê mišmeret bêt the-king.

Grammar Details

• *wayəṣawwēm*: verb, piel imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and he commanded them
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct - saying
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *haddābār*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the word/thing
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - that, which
• *taʿăśûn*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + paragogic nun - you shall do
• *haššəlišît*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the third part
• *mikkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - from you
• *bāʾê*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural construct - those entering/coming on
• *haššabbāt*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the Sabbath
• *wə-šōmərê*: conjunction + verb, qal participle, masculine plural construct - and keepers of
• *mišmeret*: noun, feminine singular construct - watch/guard of
• *bêt hammelek*: noun, masculine singular construct + definite article + noun, masculine singular - house of the king

Word Meanings

• *dābār*: word, thing, matter, command
• *šəlišît*: third part, third division, one third
• *bāʾê haššabbāt*: those coming on the Sabbath, those entering duty on the Sabbath
• *šōmərê mišmeret*: keepers of the watch, those maintaining guard duty

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 9:25 : 25 And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.
• 1 Chr 23:3-6 : 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
• 1 Chr 23:32 : 32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
• 1 Chr 24:3-6 : 3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. 4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers. 5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. 6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
• Jer 26:10 : 10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house.
• Ezek 44:2-3 : 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
• Ezek 46:2-3 : 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
• Luke 1:8-9 : 8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, 9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
• 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.
• 2 Kgs 11:19 : 19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
• 2 Kgs 16:18 : 18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.