Study it in the app“And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.””
And it happenedוַיְהִיat the endמִקֵּץof many daysיָמִים רַבִּיםthat YHWHיְהוָהsaid to me:וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלַי“Get up,קוּםgoלֵךְto the Euphrates,פְּרָתָהand takeוְקַחfrom thereמִשָּׁםthe beltאֶת הָאֵזוֹרthatאֲשֶׁרI commanded youצִוִּיתִיךָto hideלְטָמְנוֹthere.”שָׁם
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsend
What comes when something finishes: "some days later".
Where else “kets” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearsmany
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rabim” appearsYHWH
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” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsrise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kum” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lech” appearsEuphrates
See it on the mapWhere else “perata” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “kach” appearsbelt, band
A belt, a sash: a band tied around the waist.
Where else “ezor” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiviti” appearshide, bury
Hide by burying in the ground.
Where else “tamn” appearsEuphrates
Today: Euphrates River: Turkey, Syria, Iraq
The longest river in southwest Asia; it rises in Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.
It is one of the four rivers of Eden (Gen 2:14). God promised Abram the land as far as this river (Gen 15:18).
5So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as YHWH had commanded me.
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7So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and look, the belt was ruined; it was not good for anything.
