Nehemiah 12:39

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמֵעַ֣ל לְשַֽׁעַר־אֶ֠פְרַיִם וְעַל־שַׁ֨עַר הַיְשָׁנָ֜ה וְעַל־שַׁ֣עַר הַדָּגִ֗ים וּמִגְדַּ֤ל חֲנַנְאֵל֙ וּמִגְדַּ֣ל הַמֵּאָ֔ה וְעַ֖ד שַׁ֣עַר הַצֹּ֑אן וְעָ֣מְד֔וּ בְּשַׁ֖עַר הַמַּטָּרָֽה׃

Transliteration

û-mēʿal to-šaʿar-ʾep̄rayim wə-ʿal-šaʿar the-yəšānāh wə-ʿal-šaʿar the-dāgîm û-migdal ḥănanʾēl û-migdal the-mēʾāh wə-ʿad šaʿar the-ṣōʾn wə-ʿāmədû in-šaʿar the-maṭṭārāh

Grammar Details

*û-mēʿal*: conjunction + preposition - and from above
*šaʿar*: masculine singular construct - gate of
*ʾep̄rayim*: proper name - Ephraim
*wə-ʿal*: conjunction + preposition - and upon/at
*yəšānāh*: feminine singular adjective - old
*dāgîm*: masculine plural noun - fish
*û-migdal*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and tower of
*ḥănanʾēl*: proper name - Hananel
*mēʾāh*: feminine singular noun - hundred
*wə-ʿad*: conjunction + preposition - and unto
*ṣōʾn*: collective noun - sheep/flock
*wə-ʿāmədû*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person plural - and they stood
*maṭṭārāh*: feminine singular noun - guard/prison

Word Meanings

*šaʿar*-*ʾep̄rayim*: Gate of Ephraim/Ephraim Gate
*šaʿar* the-*yəšānāh*: Old Gate/Ancient Gate
*šaʿar* the-*dāgîm*: Fish Gate
*migdal* *ḥănanʾēl*: Tower of Hananel/Hananel's Tower
*migdal* the-*mēʾāh*: Tower of the Hundred/Hundred Tower
*šaʿar* the-*ṣōʾn*: Sheep Gate/Flock Gate
*šaʿar* the-*maṭṭārāh*: Prison Gate/Guard Gate/Watch Gate

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Referenced Verses

Neh 3:1 : 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
Neh 3:3 : 3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
Neh 3:6 : 6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
Neh 8:16 : 16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Neh 3:25 : 25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
2 Kgs 14:13 : 13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
Neh 3:31-32 : 31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner. 32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Jer 31:38 : 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
Jer 32:2 : 2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Zeph 1:10 : 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
John 5:2 : 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

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