Study it in the app“In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, on this very day the hand of YHWH was upon me, and he brought me there.”
In the twenty-fifth yearבְּעֶשְׂרִים וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנָהof our exile,לְגָלוּתֵנוּat the beginningבְּרֹאשׁof the year,הַשָּׁנָהon the tenthבֶּעָשׂוֹרof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁin the fourteenth yearבְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָהafterאַחַר אֲשֶׁרthe cityהָעִירwas struck,הֻכְּתָהon this very dayבְּעֶצֶם הַיּוֹם הַזֶּהthe handיַדof YHWHיְהוָהwasהָיְתָהupon me,עָלַיand he broughtוַיָּבֵאmeאֹתִיthere.שָׁמָּה
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appearsfive
Five.
Where else “chamesh” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appearsexile
Living forced away from your land.
Where else “galute” appearsbeginning
Literally "the head": the first moment of something.
Where else “rosh” appearsten
The number ten, used to count the days of the month and everyday things.
Where else “asor” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arba” appears-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “esre” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsdefeat
To attack and beat in battle.
Where else “hukta” appearsvery
With "day", it means "that very day", stressing that it happened right then.
Where else “etsem” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayta” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “yave” appears1 · This verse (above)
2In visions of Elohim he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a mountain very high, and on it was something like the structure of a city to the south.
