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But you,וְאַתֶּםbe strong,חִזְקוּand do notוְאַלlet your handsיְדֵיכֶםgo slack,יִרְפּוּforכִּיthere areיֵשׁwagesשָׂכָרfor your work.”לִפְעֻלַּתְכֶם
2 Chronicles 15:7
Study it in the app“But you, be strong, and do not let your hands go slack, for there are wages for your work.””
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Chronicles 15:7, word by word
- be strongחִזְקוּchizku
be strong
To stand firm and brave, not giving in to fear.
Where else “chizku” appears- let your handsיְדֵיyede
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yede” appears- go slackיִרְפּוּyirpu
go limp
To grow feeble, be discouraged.
Where else “yirpu” appears- wagesשָׂכָרsachar
wages
What is given to someone for the work he did, in money or goods.
Where else “sachar” appears- for your workפְעֻלַּתְfeulat
work
What someone does; what YHWH does.
Where else “feulat” appears
The context
6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for Elohim threw them into confusion with every distress.
7 · This verse (above)
8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy, Oded the prophet, he grew strong and removed the detestable things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of YHWH that was in front of the portico of YHWH.