Study it in the app“Also, from the day that I was commanded to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor.”
Also,גַּםfrom the dayמִיּוֹםthatאֲשֶׁרI was commandedצִוָּה אֹתִיto beלִהְיוֹתtheir governorפֶּחָםin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Judah,יְהוּדָהfrom the twentieth yearמִשְּׁנַת עֶשְׂרִיםuntilוְעַדthe thirty-second yearשְׁנַת שְׁלֹשִׁים וּשְׁתַּיִםof Artaxerxesלְאַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּאthe king,הַמֶּלֶךְtwelveשְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵהyears,שָׁנִיםIאֲנִיand my brothersוְאַחַיdid notלֹאeatאָכַלְתִּיthe breadלֶחֶםof the governor.הַפֶּחָה
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “heot” appearsgovernor
Governor: one who rules a province or district in the name of the king. A frequent word in the books of the Persian period.
Where else “peach” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appearstwenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appearsthirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appearsdouble
Twice the amount, or two plus ten to say twelve.
Where else “shetayim” appearsArtaxerxes
Artaxerxes: a name borne by several kings of Persia. In Ezra and Nehemiah, the king under whom the building was stopped and, later, the one who sent Ezra and Nehemiah.
Where else “artachshast” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “esre” appearscountryman
Someone of the same people, or a friend.
Where else “aach” appearseat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “achalti” appearsfood
Everything eaten at the table, even if it is not bread.
Where else “lechem” appears“The bread of the governor”: what the governor was entitled to collect from the people for his table.
13I also shook out my lap and said, “So may Elohim shake out every man who does not fulfill this word, from his house and from his labor; and so may he be shaken out and empty.” And all the assembly said, “Amen.” And they praised YHWH. And the people did according to this word.
14 · This verse (above)
15But the former governors who were before me burdened the people and took from them for bread and wine, besides, forty shekels of silver; even their young men dominated the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.
