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So the wallוַ הַחוֹמָהwas completedתִּשְׁלַםon the twenty-fifthבְּעֶשְׂרִים וַחֲמִשָּׁהof Elul,לֶאֱלוּלin fifty-twoלַחֲמִשִּׁים וּשְׁנַיִםdays.יוֹם
Nehemiah 6:15
Study it in the app“So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Nehemiah 6:15, word by word
- So the wallחוֹמָהchoma
wall
Wall, city wall.
Where else “choma” appears- was completedתִּשְׁלַםtishlam
be completed
To be finished, or kept safe.
Where else “tishlam” appears- on the twenty-fifthעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- on the twenty-fifthחֲמִשָּׁהchamisha
five
Five.
Where else “chamisha” appears- of Elulאֱלוּלelul
Elul
Elul: the sixth month of the calendar, between August and September. The name comes from Babylon.
Where else “elul” appears- in fifty-twoחֲמִשִּׁיםchamishim
fifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appears- in fifty-twoשְׁנַיִםshenayim
two
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shenayim” appears- daysיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears
Translation note
Elul is the sixth month, between August and September.
The context
14Remember, my Elohim, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of his, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were frightening me.
15 · This verse (above)
16It happened that when all our enemies heard, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they fell greatly in their own eyes, and they knew that from our Elohim this work had been done.