Study it in the app“Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now, the shepherds who are yours were with us; we did not wrong them, and nothing of theirs went missing all the days they were in Carmel.”
NowוְעַתָּהI have heardשָׁמַעְתִּיthatכִּיyou haveלָךְshearers.גֹזְזִיםNow,עַתָּהthe shepherdsהָרֹעִיםwhoאֲשֶׁרare yoursלְךָwereהָיוּwith us;עִמָּנוּwe did notלֹאwrong them,הֶכְלַמְנוּםand nothingוְלֹא מְאוּמָהof theirsלָהֶםwent missingנִפְקַדallכָּלthe daysיְמֵיthey wereהֱיוֹתָםin Carmel.בַּכַּרְמֶל
hear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “shamati” appearsshear
To clip the wool from flocks.
Where else “gozzim” appearsshepherd
One who looks after sheep; or one who leads a people, like YHWH.
Where else “roim” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayu” appearsbe ashamed, humiliate
Put to shame, humiliate; be put to shame.
Where else “hechlamnu” appearsanything
Something, anything; with "not", nothing.
Where else “meuma” appearsbe missing
To find something gone.
Where else “nifkad” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appearsCarmel
See it on the mapWhere else “karmel” appearsCarmel
Today: Mount Carmel, near Haifa, Israel
A mountain ridge near the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel, by present-day Haifa.
Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal there, and fire from the Lord fell (1 Kgs 18:19-38).
6And say this: ‘To life! Peace to you, peace to your house, and peace to all that you have.
7 · This verse (above)
8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a good day. Give, please, whatever your hand finds to your servants and to your son, to David.’”
