Study it in the app“youths in whom there was no defect at all, and good in appearance, and insightful in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding learning, and who had strength to stand in the palace of the king, and to teach them the writing and the language of the Chaldeans.”
youthsיְלָדִיםin whomאֲשֶׁר בָּהֶםthere was noאֵיןdefect at all,כָּל מוּםand goodוְטוֹבֵיin appearance,מַרְאֶהand insightfulוּמַשְׂכִּילִיםin allבְּכָלwisdom,חָכְמָהand knowingוְיֹדְעֵיknowledge,דַעַתand understandingוּמְבִינֵיlearning,מַדָּעand who hadוַאֲשֶׁר בָּהֶםstrengthכֹּחַto standלַעֲמֹדin the palaceבְּהֵיכַלof the king,הַמֶּלֶךְand to teach themוּלֲלַמְּדָםthe writingסֵפֶרand the languageוּלְשׁוֹןof the Chaldeans.כַּשְׂדִּים
youth
Young males, no longer children but not yet full-grown men.
Where else “yeladim” appearsblemish
A flaw in the body that mars it or makes it unfit.
Where else “mum” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tove” appearsappearance
The appearance of someone or something: how it looks, beautiful or ugly.
Where else “mare” appearsact wisely
To grasp what matters and act wisely.
Where else “maskilim” appearswisdom
Knowing how to live well; it begins with revering YHWH.
Where else “chachma” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yode” appearsknowledge
What one has learned; or a close bond with God.
Where else “daat” appearsbe skilled
To be very wise and skilled in what one does.
Where else “mevine” appearsknowledge
Knowledge, understanding: knowing things and knowing how to think. A word of the same family as "know," found in the late books (Chronicles, Daniel, Ecclesiastes).
Where else “mada” appearsstrength
Ability to do something: bodily strength or power to command.
Where else “koach” appearsstand before
"Stand before" someone: to serve them.
Where else “amod” appearspalace
A king's palace.
Where else “hechal” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsteach
To instruct another with words or example, so that he learns.
Where else “lamda” appearswriting
Knowing how to read; learning.
Where else “sefer” appearslanguage
The way a people speaks, by which its members understand each other.
Where else “leshon” appearsChaldean
The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
Where else “kasdim” appears3And the king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring some of the sons of Israel, both of the royal offspring and of the nobles,
4 · This verse (above)
5And the king assigned them a daily portion each day from the delicacies of the king and from the wine he drank, and ordered that they be brought up three years, and at the end of them they would stand before the king.
