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Remember,זְכָרI beg you,נָאthe wordהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרyou commandedצִוִּיתָMosesמֹשֶׁהyour servant,עַבְדְּךָsaying,לֵאמֹר‘If youאַתֶּםare unfaithful,תִּמְעָלוּIאֲנִיwill scatterאָפִיץyouאֶתְכֶםamong the peoples;בָּעַמִּים
Nehemiah 1:8
Study it in the app“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded Moses your servant, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Nehemiah 1:8, word by word
- Rememberזְכָרzechar
remember favorably
God turns his mind to someone and helps them.
Where else “zechar” appears- the wordדָּבָרdavar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appears- you commandedצִוִּיתָtsivita
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsivita” appears- Mosesמֹשֶׁהmoshe
Moses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appears- your servantעַבְדְּavd
servant of YHWH
YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.
Where else “avd” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears- are unfaithfulתִּמְעָלוּtimalu
be unfaithful
Be unfaithful, break the loyalty owed; especially, keep for oneself what belongs to God.
Where else “timalu” appears- will scatterאָפִיץafits
scatter
To scatter people over many places, as a punishment.
Where else “afits” appears- among the peoplesעַמִּיםamim
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “amim” appears
The context
7We have acted very badly against you and have not kept the commandments and the statutes and the rules that you commanded Moses your servant.
8 · This verse (above)
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.’