Nehemiah 12:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמִבֵּית֙ הַגִּלְגָּ֔ל וּמִשְּׂד֥וֹת גֶּ֖בַע וְעַזְמָ֑וֶת כִּ֣י חֲצֵרִ֗ים בָּנ֤וּ לָהֶם֙ הַמְשֹׁ֣רֲרִ֔ים סְבִיב֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃

Transliteration

û-mi-bêt the-gilgāl û-mi-śədôt gebaʿ wə-ʿazmāwet kî ḥăṣērîm bānû to-them the-məšōrərîm səbîbôt yərûšālāyim

Grammar Details

*û-mi-bêt*: conjunction + preposition + noun construct - and from house of
*gilgāl*: proper name - Gilgal
*û-mi-śədôt*: conjunction + preposition + feminine plural construct - and from fields of
*gebaʿ*: proper name - Geba
*wə-ʿazmāwet*: conjunction + proper name - and Azmaveth
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ḥăṣērîm*: masculine plural noun - settlements/villages
*bānû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - they built
*məšōrərîm*: poel participle masculine plural - singers
*səbîbôt*: feminine plural noun - surroundings of
*yərûšālāyim*: proper name - Jerusalem

Word Meanings

*kî*: because/for/that
*ḥăṣērîm*: settlements/villages/courts/encampments
*bānû*: they built/they had built/they constructed
*məšōrərîm*: singers/musicians/those who sing
*səbîbôt*: surroundings/environs/areas around

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Referenced Verses

Deut 11:30 : 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Josh 5:9 : 9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
Josh 10:43 : 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Josh 21:17 : 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
1 Chr 6:60 : 60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
Ezra 2:24 : 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Neh 11:31 : 31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,

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