2 Chronicles 8:17
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shᵉlômôh
Shelomah, David's successor
English grammatical function word ('eziongeber'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equival...
אֵילוֹת
ʼÊylôwth
Eloth or Elath, a place on the Red Sea
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
פֵּאָה
pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
אֱדֹם
ʼĔdôm
Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('eziongeber'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are...
Study GRAM →אֱדֹם ʼĔdôm
Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him
Study H123 →יָם yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the sou...
Study H3220 →פֵּאָה pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Study H6285 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Mo...
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.
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