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And thisוְאֵלֶּהis their number:מִסְפָּרָםthirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםbasinsאֲגַרְטְלֵיof gold,זָהָבa thousandאָלֶףbasinsאֲגַרְטְלֵיof silver,כֶסֶףtwenty-nineתִּשְׁעָה וְעֶשְׂרִיםknives,מַחֲלָפִים
Ezra 1:9
Study it in the app“And this is their number: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine knives,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezra 1:9, word by word
- is their numberמִסְפָּרָmispara
number
The amount that results from counting: how many there are.
Where else “mispara” appears- thirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםsheloshim
thirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appears- basinsאֲגַרְטְלֵיagartle
basin
Basin, vessel: a container of the temple whose exact shape is not known. It appears only in Ezra 1:9.
Where else “agartle” appears- of goldזָהָבzahav
gold
Gold.
Where else “zahav” appears- a thousandאָלֶףalef
thousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alef” appears- of silverכֶסֶףchesef
silver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “chesef” appears- twenty-nineתִּשְׁעָהtisha
nine
Nine; also "ninth".
Where else “tisha” appears- twenty-nineעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- knivesמַחֲלָפִיםmachalafim
knife
Knife: an instrument for slaughtering the animals of the sacrifice, according to the lexicon; its sense is not certain. It appears only once.
Where else “machalafim” appears
Translation note
“Basins” and “knives”: rare words whose exact sense is not certain.
The context
8Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the chief of Judah.
9 · This verse (above)
10thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten bowls of silver of second quality, and a thousand other utensils.