Study it in the app“Please, let our officials stand for all the assembly, and let all who in our cities have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each city and its judges, until the burning anger of our Elohim is turned away from us over this matter.””
Please,נָאlet our officialsשָׂרֵינוּstandיַעֲמְדוּfor allלְכָלthe assembly,הַקָּהָלand let allוְכֹלwhoאֲשֶׁרin our citiesבֶּעָרֵינוּhave marriedהַהֹשִׁיבforeignנָכְרִיּוֹתwomenנָשִׁיםcomeיָבֹאat appointedמְזֻמָּנִיםtimes,לְעִתִּיםand with themוְעִמָּהֶםthe eldersזִקְנֵיof each cityעִיר וָעִירand its judges,וְשֹׁפְטֶיהָuntilעַד לְthe burningחֲרוֹןangerאַףof our Elohimאֱלֹהֵינוּis turned awayהָשִׁיבfrom usמִמֶּנּוּoverעַד לַthisהַזֶּהmatter.”דָּבָר
chief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sare” appearsstand
To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
Where else “yaamdu” appearsassembly
The people gathered before YHWH.
Where else “kahal” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “are” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “hoshiv” appearsforeign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachriyot” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “nashim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appearsappoint (a time)
To fix a time. "Appointed times" are dates set beforehand.
Where else “mezumanim” appearsseason
The right moment or the part of the year when something is due.
Where else “itim” appearselder
The senior men who led a city or the people.
Where else “zikne” appearsjudge
To judge and do justice, defend the weak.
Where else “shofte” appearsburning anger
Burning of anger.
Where else “charon” appearsanger
The rage of one who snorts; the "long of nose" is slow to become angry.
Where else “af” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsturn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “hashiv” appearsthing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appears13But the people are many, and it is the time of rains, and there is no strength to stand outside; and the work is not for one day nor for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
14 · This verse (above)
15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood against this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
