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DelicateחֲמֻדוֹתfoodלֶחֶםI did notלֹאeat,אָכַלְתִּיand meatוּבָשָׂרand wineוָיַיִןdid notלֹאenterבָאmy mouth,אֶל פִּיand I did notלֹאanoint myself at all,וְסוֹךְ סָכְתִּיuntilעַדthreeשְׁלֹשֶׁתfullיָמִיםweeksשָׁבֻעִיםwere completed.מְלֹאת
Daniel 10:3
Study it in the app“Delicate food I did not eat, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, until three full weeks were completed.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Daniel 10:3, word by word
- Delicateחֲמֻדוֹתchamudot
precious
What is desirable, valuable.
Where else “chamudot” appears- foodלֶחֶםlechem
food
Everything eaten at the table, even if it is not bread.
Where else “lechem” appears- eatאָכַלְתִּיachalti
eat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “achalti” appears- and meatבָשָׂרvasar
meat
Meat to eat.
Where else “vasar” appears- and wineיַיִןyayin
wine
Wine; also drunkenness.
Where else “yayin” appears- enterבָאva
enter
To go into a place.
Where else “va” appears- my mouthפִּpi
mouth
The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
Where else “pi” appears- anoint myself at allסוֹךְsoch
anoint, rub with oil
Anoint, rub the body with oil.
Where else “soch” appears- threeשְׁלֹשֶׁתsheloshet
three
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “sheloshet” appears- fullיָמִיםyamim
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yamim” appears- weeksשָׁבֻעִיםshavuim
week
Week: a period of seven days, or of seven years. At a wedding, the seven days of the feast.
Where else “shavuim” appears- were completedמְלֹאתmelot
be fulfilled
For a period to run out, or a word to come true.
Where else “melot” appears
The context
2In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
3 · This verse (above)
4And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was on the bank of the great river, that is the Tigris,