Nehemiah 5:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲשֶׁר֩ הָיָ֨ה נַעֲשֶׂ֜ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֗ד שׁ֣וֹר אֶחָ֞ד צֹ֠אן שֵׁשׁ־בְּרֻר֤וֹת וְצִפֳּרִים֙ נַֽעֲשׂוּ־לִ֔י וּבֵ֨ין עֲשֶׂ֧רֶת יָמִ֛ים בְּכָל־יַ֖יִן לְהַרְבֵּ֑ה וְעִם־זֶ֗ה לֶ֤חֶם הַפֶּחָה֙ לֹ֣א בִקַּ֔שְׁתִּי כִּֽי־כָֽבְדָ֥ה הָעֲבֹדָ֖ה עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And that which waʾăšer hāyâ naʿăśeh for lĕyôm ʾeḥād: šôr ʾeḥād, ṣōʾn six-šēš-bĕrurôt, and wĕṣippŏrîm naʿăśû-for lî, and between ûḇên ten ʿăśeret days yāmîm with all-bĕḵol-yayin in abundance lĕharbêh; and with-wĕʿim-this zeh the food leḥem of the happeḥâ not lōʾ biqqaštî, because kî-ḵāḇĕdâ the hāʿăḇōdâ on-ʿal-the hāʿām the hazzeh.

Grammar Details

*waʾăšer*: conjunction + relative pronoun - and that which
*hāyâ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - was
*naʿăśeh*: niphal participle, masculine singular - being prepared
*lĕyôm*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - for a day
*ʾeḥād*: cardinal number, masculine - one
*šôr*: noun, masculine singular - ox
*ṣōʾn*: noun, feminine singular - sheep
*šēš*: cardinal number - six
*bĕrurôt*: qal passive participle, feminine plural - choice
*wĕṣippŏrîm*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural - and birds
*naʿăśû*: niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - were prepared
*lî*: preposition with 1st singular suffix - for me
*ûḇên*: conjunction + preposition - and between
*ʿăśeret*: construct cardinal number, feminine - ten of
*yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days
*bĕḵol*: preposition + construct noun - with all
*yayin*: noun, masculine singular - wine
*lĕharbêh*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in abundance
*wĕʿim*: conjunction + preposition - and with
*zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
*leḥem*: construct noun, masculine singular - food of
*happeḥâ*: definite noun, masculine singular - the governor
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*biqqaštî*: piel perfect, 1st singular - I demanded
*kî*: conjunction - because
*ḵāḇĕdâ*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - was heavy
*hāʿăḇōdâ*: definite noun, feminine singular - the labor/servitude
*hāʿām*: definite noun, masculine singular - the people
*hazzeh*: definite demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this

Word Meanings

*bĕrurôt*: choice/selected/choice ones
*ṣippŏrîm*: birds/fowl
*lĕharbêh*: in abundance/plentifully
*leḥem*: food/bread/provisions
*biqqaštî*: I demanded/required/requested
*ḵāḇĕdâ*: was heavy/burdensome/severe

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 4:22-23 : 22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
Neh 5:14-15 : 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Ps 37:21 : 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again{H8762)}: but the righteous sheweth mercy{H8802)}, and giveth{H8802)}.
Ps 37:26 : 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth{H8688)}; and his seed is blessed.

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