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In the firstאַחַתyearבִּשְׁנַתof Dariusלְדָרְיָוֶשׁsonבֶּןof Ahasuerus,אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁof the offspringמִזֶּרַעof the Medes,מָדָיwhoאֲשֶׁרwas made kingהָמְלַךְover the kingdomעַל מַלְכוּתof the Chaldeans,כַּשְׂדִּים
Daniel 9:1
Study it in the app“In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Daniel 9:1, word by word
- In the firstאַחַתachat
first
Literally "one": day one of the month.
Where else “achat” appears- yearשְׁנַתshenat
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appears- of Dariusדָרְיָוֶשׁdaryavesh
Darius
Darius: the name of several kings of Persia and of Darius the Mede. In Ezra, the king in whose reign the house of God was finished.
Where else “daryavesh” appears- sonבֶּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- of Ahasuerusאֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁachashverosh
Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus: the Hebrew name of a king of Persia. In Ezra 4:6 and in the book of Esther; Strong identifies him there with Xerxes.
Where else “achashverosh” appears- of the offspringזֶּרַעzera
offspring
The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.
Where else “zera” appears- of the Medesמָדָיmaday
Madai
Madai, a son of Japheth; it is the Hebrew name of the Medes (Media).
Where else “maday” appears- was made kingהָמְלַךְhamlach
make king
To set someone up as king, proclaim him and give him the throne.
Where else “hamlach” appears- over the kingdomמַלְכוּתmalchut
kingdom
A kingdom: the people and territory a king rules, or the one YHWH rules.
Where else “malchut” appears- of the Chaldeansכַּשְׂדִּיםkasdim
Chaldean
The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
Where else “kasdim” appears
The context
1 · This verse (above)
2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years that, as the word of YHWH came to the prophet Jeremiah, were to be fulfilled for the ruins of Jerusalem: seventy years.