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They livedוַיֵּשְׁבוּin itבָהּand builtוַיִּבְנוּfor youלְךָin itבָּהּa sanctuaryמִקְדָּשׁfor your name,לְשִׁמְךָsaying,לֵאמֹר
2 Chronicles 20:8
Study it in the app“They lived in it and built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,”
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With the Hebrew beneath
2 Chronicles 20:8, word by word
- They livedיֵּשְׁבוּyeshvu
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshvu” appears- and builtיִּבְנוּyivnu
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “yivnu” appears- a sanctuaryמִקְדָּשׁmikdash
sanctuary
Sanctuary: a place set apart for God; also a holy thing. Said too of the shrines of other gods.
Where else “mikdash” appears- for your nameשִׁמְshim
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shim” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
7Did you not, our Elohim, dispossess the inhabitants of this land from before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham, who loved you, forever?
8 · This verse (above)
9‘If evil comes upon us —sword, judgment, or pestilence or famine— we will stand before this house and before you, for your name is in this house, and we will cry out to you from our distress, and you will hear and save.’