2 Chronicles 16:13 — Word Study
WLCוַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב אָסָ֖א עִם־ אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַיָּ֕מָת בִּשְׁנַ֛ת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וְאַחַ֖ת לְמָלְכֽוֹ׃
BSASo in the forty-firstʼarbâʻîym [one and fortieth] yearshâneh of his reignmâlak AsaʼÂçâʼ [the king of Judah] diedmûwth▸ [slept with his fathers, passed away] and restedshâkab▸ [lieth down, to lie down] withʻim his fathersʼâb [ancestors, those who came before]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב | and he lay down | Verb, Qal, sequential imperfect third person masculine singular |
| אָסָ֖א | Asa | Noun proper masculine |
| עִם־ | with | Preposition |
| אֲבֹתָ֑יו | ancestors his | Noun common feminine plural construct, suffix |
| וַיָּ֕מָת | and he died | Verb, Qal, sequential imperfect third person masculine singular |
| בִּשְׁנַ֛ת | in year | Preposition, noun common feminine singular construct |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | forty | Noun common, masculine plural absolute |
| וְאַחַ֖ת | and one | Conjunction, noun common feminine singular absolute |
| לְמָלְכֽוֹ׃ | of reigning his | Preposition, verb qal infinitive construct common, suffix |
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| BSB | So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers. |
| KJV | ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. |
| ASV | And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. |
| YLT | And Asa lieth with his fathers, and dieth in the forty and first year of his reign, |
| WEB | Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign. |
| BBE | So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule. |
Where they part company is אַרְבָּעִ֥ים — see How Translations Differ.
The sentence contains a main clause and a couple of phrases that provide additional context about the timing and nature of Asa's death.
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clause
subjectאָסָא
verbשָׁכַב
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Deep Study — 2 Chronicles 16:13
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Context — The Death of Asagenerated
2 Chronicles 16:13 recounts the death of Asa, king of Judah, who ruled for forty-one years. His reign is marked by both faithfulness to God and later reliance on physicians rather than seeking divine help in his illness. Asa's story is also reflected in 1 Kings 15:24, which provides additional context about his life and reign.
Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 Kings 15:24 | And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place. |
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 1 reference, hung on the phrase they belong to
The Key Word — שָׁכַב, vai.yish.Kavgenerated
The Hebrew word שָׁכַב (shakab) is a primitive root meaning 'to lie down.' It covers a range of meanings including resting, lodging, engaging in sexual relations, and lying down in death. In this verse, it specifically refers to Asa lying down in death, indicating his passing.
The verb is in the Qal form, which is the most basic and straightforward aspect of the verb. It indicates a simple action without additional nuance, emphasizing the act of dying rather than any other connotation.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
This study reads the verse in the Berean Standard Bible, so the BSB is the wording every comparison below is made against. The BSB has died and rested, which aligns with the KJV and ASV, both of which maintain the same terminology.
Where others part company with the BSB is in the rendering of אַרְבָּעִ֥ים — forty (BBE, BSB, NETB) versus one and fortieth (KJV, ASV). This distinction highlights different approaches to translating the Hebrew numeral.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The main verb of the sentence is יִּשְׁכַּ֥ב, he lay down, which governs the action of Asa's death. The structure of the sentence is straightforward, with a series of phrases that detail the year of his reign and the context of his death.
The sentence includes a prepositional phrase indicating the year of Asa's reign, followed by a noun phrase that identifies Asa, and concludes with another verb phrase indicating his death. This structure allows for a clear presentation of the key events.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
The Septuagint translates שָׁכַב as ἐκοιμήθη, meaning 'he was put to sleep.' This choice emphasizes the finality of death while also suggesting a peaceful rest.
The Greek term used conveys a sense of tranquility associated with death, reflecting a common biblical theme of death as a form of rest.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
2 Chronicles 16:13 tells us that Asa, the king of Judah, died in the forty-first year of his reign. He rested with his ancestors, indicating he passed away peacefully. His story is also recounted in 1 Kings 15:24.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
This phrase indicates that Asa died and was buried in the ancestral tomb, signifying a return to his family and heritage.
The specific year marks the end of Asa's reign, which is important for understanding the timeline of Judah's kings.
Asa's life teaches about the importance of seeking God in times of trouble, as he initially did but later turned to physicians instead.
Asa's death is noted for its peacefulness, contrasting with other kings who faced violent ends or divine judgment.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- What does it mean to rest with one's ancestors in the context of faith?
- How can we learn from Asa's reliance on physicians rather than seeking God during his illness?
- What significance does the forty-first year of reign hold in the history of Judah?
- How does Asa's legacy influence our understanding of leadership and faith?
Commentators on this verse — 5 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on 2 Chronicles 16:13 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty first year of his reign. See 1 Kings 15:10.
Read John Gill on 2 Chronicles 16 →Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Read Robert Jamieson on 2 Chronicles 16 →John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.Ver. 13. And Asa slept with his fathers.] He that could drive out that huge army of the Ethiopians, could not drive away death.
Read John Trapp on 2 Chronicles 16 →Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) And died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.—Not in 1 Kings 15:24, which continues, with the usual formula, “and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.” (See 1 Kings 15:10, “And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem.”)
Read Charles John Ellicott on 2 Chronicles 16 →CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges13. in the one and fortieth year] Cp. 1 Kings 15:10.
Read Cambridge on 2 Chronicles 16 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
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Modern formal
So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.
Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.
So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.
Asa passed away in the forty-first year of his reign.
Tyndale line
¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
So Asa slept with his fathers, and dyed in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.
Strictly literal
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one-and-fortieth year of his reign.
And Asa lieth with his fathers, and dieth in the forty and first year of his reign,
And Asa lies with his fathers, and dies in the forty-first year of his reign,
And Assa slept with his fathers, and died in the one-and-fortieth year of his reign.
So Asa slept with his ancestors, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.
From the Latin
And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
Simplified
Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign.
So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.
Word by word, the decisions they made
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the MACULA Hebrew treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The four witnesses to this verse — Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Qumran
The Masoretic Text and the Septuagint agree closely on this verse, with a word-for-word correspondence in the translation. Both texts convey the same essential details about Asa's death and his resting with his ancestors.
וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב אָסָ֖א עִם־ אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַיָּ֕מָת בִּשְׁנַ֛ת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וְאַחַ֖ת לְמָלְכֽוֹ׃
9 of the 9 words are matched. This is the word-by-word correspondence, not the Septuagint's own sentence — its word order and its articles are its own.
Four traditions, not one. “On the leather” means the letters physically survive on the scroll, as against letters an editor has supplied to fill a hole in it — a restoration is a scholar’s reading, not a reading of the manuscript. Words in [square brackets] are supplied; the notes count them apart from what survives.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
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Lexicons — every word in 2 Chronicles 16:13
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Hebrew lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. On the Hebrew: Brown-Driver-Briggs entire and its gloss set, Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and Tyndale House's Translators Brief lexicon. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Hebrew word שָׁכַב (shakab) is a primitive root meaning 'to lie down.' It covers a range of meanings including resting, lodging, engaging in sexual relations, and lying down in death. The word appears in various forms, such as Qal, Niphal, Pual, Hiphil, and Hophal, indicating different nuances of lying down. Notably, it can also figuratively mean to relax.
שָׁכַב 212 vb. lie down
Qal
lie down
= lodge (for night)
of sexual relations, lie with
lie down in death
esp. in phr. lie down with his fathers
fig. = relax
Niph. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subj. women), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. q.v.
Hiph. lay
Hoph. laid
base
H7901 שָׁכַב lie down .. lie down
. = lodge (for night)
. of sexual relations, lie with
. . lie down in death
. esp. in phr. lie down with his fathers
. fig. = relax
. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subj. women), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. q.v.
. lay
. laid
7901 shakab shaw-kab'
a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection,
decease or any other purpose):--X at all, cast down,
((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to
sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
שָׁכַב (sha.khav) — to lie down: lay down.
: lay_down/lie_with
1) to lie down
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lie, lie down, lie on
1a2) to lodge
1a3) to lie (of sexual relations)
1a4) to lie down (in death)
1a5) to rest, relax (fig)
1b) (Niphal) to be lain with (sexually)
1c) (Pual) to be lain with (sexually)
1d) (Hiphil) to make to lie down
1e) (Hophal) to be laid
שָׁכַב (sha.khav) — to lie down: sleep.
: sleep/rest
1) to lie down
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lie, lie down, lie on
1a2) to lodge
1a3) to lie (of sexual relations)
1a4) to lie down (in death)
1a5) to rest, relax (fig)
1b) (Niphal) to be lain with (sexually)
1c) (Pual) to be lain with (sexually)
1d) (Hiphil) to make to lie down
1e) (Hophal) to be laid
שָׁכַב (sha.khav) — to lie down: have sex.
: have_sex
1) to lie down
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to lie, lie down, lie on
1a2) to lodge
1a3) to lie (of sexual relations)
1a4) to lie down (in death)
1a5) to rest, relax (fig)
Conj | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms — Verb · Qal · sequential imperfect third person masculine singularHc/Vqw3ms
אָסָא ('Aca') refers to Asa, a king of Judah and a Levite. The entries indicate that Asa is of uncertain derivation, possibly meaning 'healer.' He is first mentioned in 1 Kings 15:8 as the son of Abijah and father of Jehoshaphat, and also appears in genealogies in Matthew. There is a suggestion of dual meanings, including 'injurious,' but this is uncertain.
אָסָא n.pr.m. (perh. healer) king of Judah, son of Abijam and father of Jehoshaphat
base
H609 אָסָא
609 'Aca' aw-saw'
of uncertain derivation; Asa, the name of a king and of a
Levite:--Asa.
אָסָא (a.sa) — Asa.
A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.15.8;
son of: Abijah (H0029I); married to Azubah (H5806);
father of: Jehoshaphat (H3092I); also called Asaph at Mat.1.7,8;
Also named: Asa (Ἀσά "Asaph" G0760)
§ Asa = "healer: injurious (?)"
1) king of Judah, son of Abijam, father of Jehoshaphat
2) a Levite
אָסָא (a.sa) — Asa.
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at 1Ch.9.16;
son of: Elkanah (H0511K);
father of: Berechiah (H1296I)
§ Asa = "healer: injurious (?)"
1) king of Judah, son of Abijam, father of Jehoshaphat
2) a Levite
N-proper — Noun proper masculineHNpm
a'-sa ('aca', "healer"; Asa):
(1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, or rather grandmother, was daughter of Abishalom (Absalom) (1Ki 15:1 ff). The first ten years of his reign were prosperous and peaceful (2Ch 14:1). He introduced many reforms, such as putting away the sodomites or male prostitutes, removing idols from holy places, breaking down altars, pillars and Asherim. He even deposed the "queen mother" because of her idolatrous practices, and of the image which she had made for Asherah (1Ki 15:12 ff; 2Ch 14:3). Though the king himself, in the main, was a zealous…
Asa
Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings 15:8-14). The Lord gave him and his land rest and prosperity. It is recorded of him, however, that in his old age, when afflicted, he “sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians” (comp. Jer. 17:5). He died in the forty-first year of his reign, greatly honoured by his people (2 Chr. 16:1-13), and was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat.
(physician , or cure). Son of Abijah and third king of Judah. (B.C. 956-916.) (His long reign of 41 years was peaceful in its earlier portion, and he undertook the reformation of all abuses, especially of idolatry. He burnt the symbol of his grandmother Maachah’s religion and deposed her from the dignity of "king’s mother,") and renewed the great altar which the idolatrous priests apparently had desecrated. (2 Chronicles 15:8) Besides this he fortified cities on his frontiers, and raised an army, amounting, according to (2 Chronicles 14:8) to 580,000 men, a number probably exaggerated by an error of the copyist. During Asa’s reign, Zerah, at the head of an enormous host, (2 Chronicles 14:9) attacked Mareshah. There he was…
The third king of Judah after Solomon, son and successor of Abijam, 1Ki 15:8. He began to reign B. C. 951, and reigned forty-one years at Jerusalem. The first part of his reign was comparatively peaceful and prosperous. He restored the pure worship of God; expelled those who, from sacrilegious superstition, prostituted themselves in honor of their false gods; purified Jerusalem from the infamous practices attending the worship of idols; and deprived his mother of her office and dignity of queen, because she erected an idol to Astarte. In the eleventh year of his reign, God gave him the victory over the vast army of the Cushite king Zerah; and the prophet Azariah encouraged him to go on in his work of reform. And yet, when Baasha king of Israel opposed this very work, he sought aid not from God, but from heathen Syria. In the latter…
עִם (im) is a preposition meaning 'with' and covers a range of relationships, including companionship, locality, and possession. It can imply actions done jointly, equality, or even opposition in contexts like combat. The related form מֵעִם (me.im) means 'from with' or 'beside.' The entries reflect various nuances but do not present significant disagreement.
עִם prep. with
of fellowship and companionship
of aid
Of actions done jointly with another
If the common action be of the nature of a contest or combat, with in the sense of against
Of dealing with a person, or of the relation in which one stands with, or towards, another
Of a common lot together with the wicked
Of equality or resemblance generally aid
Of time, as long as
Of a locality, close to, beside
Of persons, עִם is spec.
in the house or family or service of
In possession of
In the custody or care of
Beside = except
With = friendly with
Idiom. of a thought or purpose present with one
Metaph. together with = in spite of, notwithstanding
base
מֵעִם 72 from with or beside
base
H5973a עִם with . of fellowship and companionship
. Of a locality, close to, beside
. Of persons, עִם is spec. . in the house or family or service of
. In possession of
. In the custody or care of
. Beside = except
. With = friendly with
. Idiom. of a thought or purpose present with one
. Metaph. together with = in spite of, notwithstanding
H5973b מֵעִם from with, beside
5973 `im eem
from 6004; adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction
with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with;
often with prepositional prefix (and then usually
unrepresented in English):--accompanying, against, and, as (X
long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from
(among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-)to,
with(-al).
see HEBREW for 06004
עִם (im) — with.
1) with
1a) with
1b) against
1c) toward
1d) as long as
מֵעִם (me.im) — from with.
1a) beside, except
1b) in spite of
Prep — PrepositionHR
אָב (av) means 'father' and encompasses various roles such as the literal father of an individual, God as the father of His people, and the head of a household or clan. It can also refer to an ancestor, originator of a profession, or a figure of respect and protection. Notably, it can imply a ruler or chief in later contexts.
אָב 1101 n.m. father
father of individual
of God as father of his people
head of household, family or clan
ancestor
originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
fig. of producer, generator
fig. of benevolence & protection
term of respect & honor
specif., ruler, chief (late)
base
H1 אָב father . father of individual
. of God as father of his people
. head of household, family or clan
. ancestor
. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
. fig. of producer, generator
. fig. of benevolence & protection
. term of respect & honor
. specif., ruler, chief (late)
1 'ab awb
a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or
figurative and remote application):--chief,
(fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names
in "Abi-".
אָב (av) — father.
1) father of an individual
2) of God as father of his people
3) head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
4) ancestor
4a) grandfather, forefathers - of person
4b) of people
5) originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
6) of producer, generator (fig.)
7) of benevolence and protection (fig.)
8) term of respect and honour
9) ruler or chief (spec.)
Also means: av (אַב "father" H0002)
אָב (av) — (Huram)-abi.
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.7.13; also called Huram-abi (KJV: "Huram my father's") at 2Ch.2.13; 4.16;
Combined with chi.ram (חִירָם "Hiram" H2438H)
אָב (av) — father of.
The father of Gibeon, also known as Abiel - a man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.9.1;
son of: Zeror (H6872C); married to Maacah (H4601N);
N-mp | Suff — Noun common feminine plural construct · suffixHNcfpc/Sp3ms
מוּת (mūth) is a Hebrew verb meaning 'to die' or 'to kill.' It encompasses a range of meanings from dying naturally to being executed as a penalty. The word can refer to both humans and animals, and it includes various forms such as causing death or being killed. There is a distinction in usage based on the subject, whether it is a person or God inflicting death.
מוּת vb. die
Qal
die, of natural or other causes
die as a penalty = be put to death
Po‛lel. kill, put to death, despatch (intens.)
Hiph.
abs., elsewhere c. acc., subj. man
subj. God, by inflicting penalty
of animals killing men
bring to a premature death
Hoph. be killed, put to death
base
H4191 מוּת die .. die, of natural or other causes
. die as a penalty = be put to death
. kill, put to death, despatch (intens.)
. . abs., elsewhere c. acc., subj. man
. subj. God, by inflicting penalty
. of animals killing men
. bring to a premature death
. be killed, put to death
4191 muwth mooth
a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively);
causatively, to kill:--X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body,
man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to,
be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs,
slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
מוּת (mut) — to die.
1) to die, kill, have one executed
1a)(Qal)
1a1) to die
1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death
1a3) to die, perish (of a nation)
1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)
1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch
1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be killed, be put to death
1d1a) to die prematurely
Conj | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms — Verb · Qal · sequential imperfect third person masculine singularHc/Vqw3ms
שָׁנָה (shaneh) means 'year' and is derived from the root meaning to change or revolve. It encompasses various aspects of time, including divisions of time, measures of age, and even a lifetime. The Aramaic equivalent is שְׁנָה (she.nah), also meaning 'year'.
שָׁנָה 877 n.f. year (etym. v. √[v.ek.aa])
base
H8141 שָׁנָה year (etym. v. √[8138a])
8141 shaneh shaw-neh'
(in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}; from 8138; a year
(as a revolution of time):--+ whole age, X long, + old,
year(X -ly).
see HEBREW for 08138
שָׁנָה (sha.neh) — year.
1) year
1a) as division of time
1b) as measure of time
1c) as indication of age
1d) a lifetime (of years of life)
Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "year" H8140)
Prep | N-fs — Preposition · noun common feminine singular constructHR/Ncfsc
yer (shanah, Aramaic shenah, "a return" (of the sun), like the Greek eniautos; yamim, "days," is also used for "year," and the Greek hemerai, corresponds to it (Jos 13:1; Lu 17,18); etos, is also employed frequently in the New Testament; for the difference between etos and eniautos, see Grimm-Thayer, under the word): The Hebrew year was solar, although the month was lunar, the adjustment being made in intercalation.
See ASTRONOMY; TIME.
Year
Heb. shanah, meaning “repetition” or “revolution” (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year.
the highest ordinary division of time. Two years were known to, and apparently used by, the Hebrews. A year of 360 days appears to have been in use in Noah’s time. The year used by the Hebrews from the time of the exodus may: be said to have been then instituted, since a current month, Abib, on the 14th day of which the first Passover was kept, was then made the first month of the year. The essential characteristics of this year can be clearly determined, though we cannot fix those of any single year. It was essentially solar for the offering of productions of the earth, first-fruits, harvest produce and ingathered fruits, was fixed to certain days of the year, two of which were in the periods of great feasts, the third itself a feast reckoned from one of the former days. But it is certain that the months were lunar, each commencing with a new moon. There must therefore have been some…
The Hebrews always had years of twelve months. But at the beginning, as some suppose, they were solar years of twelve months, each month having thirty days, excepting the twelfth, which had thirty-five days. We see, by the enumeration of the days of the deluge, Ge 7:1-8:22, that the original year consisted of three hundred and sixtyfive days. It is supposed that they had an intercalary month at the end of one hundred and twenty years, at which time the beginning of their year would be out of its place full thirty days. Subsequently, however, and throughout the history of the Jews, the year was wholly lunar, having alternately a full month of thirty days, and a defective month of twenty-nine days, thus completing their year in three hundred and fifty-four days. To accommodate this lunar year to the solar year, (365 days, 5 hours, 48…
אַרְבָּעִים (arba`iym) simply means 'forty' in Hebrew. It is a multiple of the number 702 and is consistently defined across various lexicons. There are no significant disagreements among the entries regarding its meaning.
אַרְבָּעִים a forty
base
H705 אַרְבָּעִים a forty
705 'arba`iym ar-baw-eem'
multiple of 702; forty:---forty.
see HEBREW for 0702
אַרְבָּעִים (ar.ba.im) — forty.
forty
Adj — Noun common · masculine plural absoluteHNcmpa
אֶחָד (echad) means 'one' and is derived from a numeral. It encompasses meanings such as each, every, a certain, and can serve as an indefinite article. It is also used as an ordinal to denote 'first' and appears in various combinations, including eleven. The entries consistently emphasize its numerical and qualitative aspects.
אֶחָד 972 adj.num. one
one
= each, every
= a certain
= indef. art.
only, & (fem.) once
one … another, one … the other
as ordinal first
in combin.
base
H259 אֶחָד one . one
. = each, every
. = a certain
. = indef. art.
. only, & (fem.) once
. one … another, one … the other
. as ordinal first
. in combin.
259 'echad ekh-awd'
a numeral from 258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an
ordinal) first:--a, alike, alone, altogether, and,
any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), +
eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only,
other, some, together,
see HEBREW for 0258
אֶחָד (e.chad) — one.
1) one (number)
1a) one (number)
1b) each, every
1c) a certain
1d) an (indefinite article)
1e) only, once, once for all
1f) one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one
1g) first
1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)
HC/Ncfsa — Conjunction · noun common feminine singular absoluteHC/Ncfsa
wun.
See NUMBER.
מָלַךְ (malak) is a Hebrew verb meaning to reign, become king or queen, or to counsel. It encompasses various forms, including Qal (to reign), Hiphil (to make someone king), and Niphal (to consider). The word appears in contexts related to royalty and governance, with a notable reference in Daniel 9:1 for its use in the passive form.
H4427a מָלַךְ vb. denom. be, or become king, or queen, reign H4427b מָלַךְ counsel, advise—only Niph. Impf.
4427 malak maw-lak'
a primitive root; to reign; inceptively, to ascend the
throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by
implication) to take counsel:--consult, X indeed, be (make,
set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to)
reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
מָלַךְ (ma.lakh) — to reign.
1) to be or become king or queen, reign
1a) (Qal) to be or become king or queen, reign
1b) (Hiphil) to make one king or queen, cause to reign
1c) (Hophal) to be made king or queen
מָלַךְ (ma.lakh) — to advise.
1) to counsel, advise
1a) (Niphal) to consider
Aramaic equivalent: me.lakh (מְלֵךְ "counsel" H4431)
Prep | V-Qal-Inf-a | Suff — Preposition · verb qal infinitive construct common · suffixHR/Vqcc/Sp3ms