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And he cameוַיָּבֹאto Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַםin the fifthהַחֲמִישִׁיmonth;בַּחֹדֶשׁitהִיאwas the seventhהַשְּׁבִיעִיתyearשְׁנַתof the king.לַמֶּלֶךְ
Ezra 7:8
Study it in the app“And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month; it was the seventh year of the king.”
With the Hebrew and Aramaic beneath
Ezra 7:8, word by word
- And he cameיָּבֹאyavo
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appears- to Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַםyerushalaim
Jerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appears- in the fifthחֲמִישִׁיchamishi
fifth
The one in fifth place in an order.
Where else “chamishi” appears- monthחֹדֶשׁchodesh
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appears- was the seventhשְּׁבִיעִיתsheviit
seventh
Seventh.
Where else “sheviit” appears- yearשְׁנַתshenat
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appears- of the kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears
Places in this verse
Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
The context
7And there went up some of the sons of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the gatekeepers and the Nethinim to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
8 · This verse (above)
9For on the first day of the first month was the beginning of the going up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his Elohim upon him.