Jeremiah 39:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken into.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּעַשְׁתֵּֽי־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ לְצִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרְבִיעִ֖י בְּתִשְׁעָ֣ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָבְקְעָ֖ה הָעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

In ʿaštê-ʿeśrēh šānāh to ṣidqiyyāhū, in ḥōdeš the rəbîʿî, in tišʿāh to-the-ḥōdeš, hābqəʿāh the-ʿîr.

Grammar Details

• *ʿaštê*-*ʿeśrēh*: cardinal number, feminine - eleven
• *šānāh*: noun, feminine, singular - year
• *ṣidqiyyāhū*: proper name, masculine - Zedekiah
• *ḥōdeš*: noun, masculine, singular - month
• *rəbîʿî*: ordinal number, masculine, singular - fourth
• *tišʿāh*: cardinal number - nine/ninth
• *hābqəʿāh*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - was breached/broken through
• *ʿîr*: noun, feminine, singular with definite article - the city

Word Meanings

• *hābqəʿāh*: was breached/broken into/broken through
• *ʿîr*: city/town

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, on the ninth day of the fourth month, the city’s walls were breached.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  in the eleventh{H6249} year{H8141} of Zedekiah,{H6667} in the fourth{H7243} month,{H2320} the ninth{H8672} day of the month,{H2320} a breach{H1234} was made in the city,){H5892}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And in the eleventh{H6249}{H6240} year{H8141} of Zedekiah{H6667}, in the fourth{H7243} month{H2320}, the ninth{H8672} day of the month{H2320}, the city{H5892} was broken up{H1234}{(H8717)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And in the xi. yeare of Sedechias in the fourth Moneth ye ix. daye of ye Moneth, he brake in to the cite).

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And in the eleuenth yeere of Zedekiah in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, the citie was broken vp.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And in the eleuenth yere of Zedekia, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, he brake into the citie)

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, hath the city been broken up;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

• American Standard Version (1901)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city,)

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)

• World English Bible (2000)

  in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 25:3-4 : 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
• Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
• Jer 52:6-7 : 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were all around the city:) and they went by the way of the plain.
• Ezek 33:21 : 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is struck.
• Mic 2:12-13 : 12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of people. 13 The breaker has come up before them; they have broken up and have passed through the gate and are gone out by it, and their king shall pass before them, with the LORD at their head.
• Zeph 1:10 : 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.