Nehemiah 4:10
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהוּדָה
Yᵉhûwdâh
Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
כֹּחַ
kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
חׇרְבָּה
chorbâh
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
עָפָר
ʻâphâr
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
בָּנָה
bânâh
to build (literally and figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
כֹּחַ kôach
vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
Study H3581 →יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh
Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
Study H3063 →Cross References
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus...
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
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