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And theyוְהֵםare your servantsעֲבָדֶיךָand your people,וְעַמֶּךָwhomאֲשֶׁרyou ransomedפָּדִיתָby your greatבְּ ךָ הַגָּדוֹלpowerכֹחֲand by your strongוּבְ ךָ הַחֲזָקָהhand.יָדְ
Nehemiah 1:10
Study it in the app“And they are your servants and your people, whom you ransomed by your great power and by your strong hand.”
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Nehemiah 1:10, word by word
- are your servantsעֲבָדֶיavade
servant of YHWH
YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.
Where else “avade” appears- and your peopleעַמֶּame
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ame” appears- you ransomedפָּדִיתָpadita
redeem
To set someone free from slavery or danger, as God did with Israel.
Where else “padita” appears- by your greatגָּדוֹלgadol
great
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gadol” appears- powerכֹחֲchoach
strength
Ability to do something: bodily strength or power to command.
Where else “choach” appears- and by your strongחֲזָקָהchazaka
strong
Of great power or intensity: a hand, a wind or a famine no one can withstand.
Where else “chazaka” appears- handיָדְyad
power
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appears
The context
9and if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your banished ones are at the end of the heavens, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen to make my name dwell there.’
10 · This verse (above)
11I beg you, Adonai, let your ear, I beg you, be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and give success, I beg you, to your servant today, and grant him mercy before this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.