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Therefore,עַל כֵּןbecause ofעֲלֵיyouכֶםthe heavensשָמַיִםhave held backכָּלְאוּthe dew,מִטָּלand the earthוְהָאָרֶץhas held backכָּלְאָהits produce.יְבוּלָהּ
Haggai 1:10
Study it in the app“Therefore, because of you the heavens have held back the dew, and the earth has held back its produce.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Haggai 1:10, word by word
- the heavensשָמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- have held backכָּלְאוּkalu
hold back, restrain
Hold back, restrain, withhold; keep someone from doing something, prevent.
Where else “kalu” appears- the dewטָּלtal
dew
Dew: the moisture of the night, which in a dry land keeps the plants alive.
Where else “tal” appears- and the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- its produceיְבוּלָyevula
produce
Produce: what the land yields.
Where else “yevula” appears
The context
9You looked for much, and look, it came to little; and you brought it home, and I blew on it. Why? declares YHWH Tsevaot. Because of my house, which lies desolate, while you run, each to his own house.
10 · This verse (above)
11And I called for a drought on the land and on the mountains, and on the grain and on the new wine and on the oil, and on what the ground brings forth, and on human beings and on livestock, and on all the labor of their hands.”