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And now,וְעַתָּהset,שִׂימוּplease,נָאyour heartלְבַבְכֶםfromמִןthisהַזֶּהdayהַיּוֹםonward:וָמָעְלָהbeforeמִטֶּרֶםa stoneאֶבֶןwas placedשׂוּםonאֶלa stoneאֶבֶןin the templeבְּהֵיכַלof YHWH,יְהוָה
Haggai 2:15
Study it in the app“And now, set, please, your heart from this day onward: before a stone was placed on a stone in the temple of YHWH,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Haggai 2:15, word by word
- setשִׂימוּsimu
put
To put something somewhere.
Where else “simu” appears- your heartלְבַבְlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- dayיּוֹםyom
today
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appears- onwardמָעְלָmala
above
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “mala” appears- beforeטֶּרֶםterem
not yet, before
Not yet; before.
Where else “terem” appears- a stoneאֶבֶןeven
stone
A piece of rock, large or small, used for building, marking or throwing.
Where else “even” appears- in the templeהֵיכַלhechal
temple
Literally "palace": YHWH's great house.
Where else “hechal” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
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” appears
Translation note
“Onward”: it can also be understood as “backward,” that is, recalling the past time (2:16-17).
The context
14And Haggai answered and said, “So is this people, and so this nation before me, declares YHWH, and so all the work of their hands; and what they present there is unclean.
15 · This verse (above)
16since they were so: one came to a heap of twenty, and there were ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty measures, and there were twenty.