28
This isזֶהthe peopleהָעָםwhomאֲשֶׁרNebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּרcarried into exile:הֶגְלָהin the seventhשֶׁבַעyear,בִּשְׁנַתthree thousandשְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִיםand twenty-threeוְעֶשְׂרִים וּשְׁלֹשָׁהJews;יְהוּדִים
Jeremiah 52:28
Study it in the app“This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 52:28, word by word
- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- Nebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּרnevuchadretsar
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar: king of Babylon who subdued Judah, took Jerusalem, burned the house of YHWH and took the people into exile (2 Kings 24-25; Jeremiah; Daniel 1-4). The Hebrew writes his name in several forms.
Where else “nevuchadretsar” appears- carried into exileהֶגְלָהhegla
go into exile
To be taken away from one's own land, or deport others.
Where else “hegla” appears- in the seventhשֶׁבַעsheva
seven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “sheva” appears- yearשְׁנַתshenat
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appears- three thousandשְׁלֹשֶׁתsheloshet
three
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “sheloshet” appears- three thousandאֲלָפִיםalafim
thousand
One thousand: a large, round number.
Where else “alafim” appears- and twenty-threeעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- Jewsיְהוּדִיםyehudim
Jew, Judean
Jew: a person of Judah, first of the kingdom of Judah and then, in general, of the people descended from it. Its first appearance is 2 Kings 16:6, where it names the men of Judah who lived in Elath. It is frequent in Jeremiah, Nehemiah and Esther.
Where else “yehudim” appears
Translation note
These figures (52:28-30) are not in 2 Kings.
The context
27The king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
28 · This verse (above)
29in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, from Jerusalem, eight hundred and thirty-two persons;