Nehemiah 9:21
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
כּוּל
kûwl
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
חָסֵר
châçêr
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
רֶגֶל
regel
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
בָּעָה
bâʻâh
to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
Key Terms in This Verse
בָּעָה bâʻâh
to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
Study H1158 →כּוּל kûwl
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
Study H3557 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →רֶגֶל regel
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
Study H7272 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →Cross References
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth...
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep ...
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
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