Study it in the app“Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and concerning your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in eternal righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.”
Seventyשִׁבְעִיםweeksשָׁבֻעִיםare decreedנֶחְתַּךְconcerning your peopleעַל עַמְּךָand concerningוְעַלyour holyקָדְשֶׁךָcity,עִירto finishלְכַלֵּאthe transgression,הַפֶּשַׁעand to put an end to sin,וּלְהָתֵם חַטָּאתand to make expiationוּלְכַפֵּרfor iniquity,עָוֺןand to bring inוּלְהָבִיאeternalעֹלָמִיםrighteousness,צֶדֶקand to seal upוְלַחְתֹּםvisionחָזוֹןand prophet,וְנָבִיאand to anointוְלִמְשֹׁחַa most holy place.קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים
seventy
Seventy.
Where else “shivim” appearsweek
Week: a period of seven days, or of seven years. At a wedding, the seven days of the feast.
Where else “shavuim” appearsdecree
To determine, to decree (literally, to cut off).
Where else “nechtach” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appearsholy thing
Something set apart for God: a day, an offering.
Where else “kadshe” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearshold back, restrain
Hold back, restrain, withhold; keep someone from doing something, prevent.
Where else “chale” appearstransgression
A serious wrong against someone: rebellion, transgression.
Where else “pesha” appearsend
To be over, reach its close.
Where else “hatem” appearssin
Failing God, not doing what he asks.
Where else “chatat” appearsatone
To cover guilt so there is forgiveness.
Where else “chaper” appearsiniquity
A serious wrong.
Where else “avon” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “havi” appearsforever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olamim” appearsrighteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appearsseal, stop up
Seal, close up. Of the body, be blocked so that a discharge does not come out.
Where else “chetom” appearsvision
Vision: what God makes a prophet see or understand; by extension, his message.
Where else “chazon” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearsanoint
To pour oil on someone to set them apart for God.
Where else “meshoach” appears“A most holy [place]”: literally “holy of holies”; in the Law it is said of the altar and of the most holy place.
23At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly loved; so understand the word and comprehend the vision.
24 · This verse (above)
25So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.
