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And your good spiritוְרוּחֲךָ הַטּוֹבָהyou gaveנָתַתָּto give them understanding,לְהַשְׂכִּילָםand your mannaוּמַנְךָyou did notלֹאwithholdמָנַעְתָּfrom their mouth,מִפִּיהֶםand waterוּמַיִםyou gaveנָתַתָּהthemלָהֶםfor their thirst.לִצְמָאָם
Nehemiah 9:20
Study it in the app“And your good spirit you gave to give them understanding, and your manna you did not withhold from their mouth, and water you gave them for their thirst.”
Israel confesses its stubbornness and recalls that God did not abandon themFaithfulness
With the Hebrew beneath
Nehemiah 9:20, word by word
- And your good spiritרוּחֲruach
Spirit of God
The spirit of Elohim or YHWH: his presence and power.
Where else “ruach” appears- And your good spiritטּוֹבָהtova
good
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tova” appears- you gaveנָתַתָּnatata
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natata” appears- to give them understandingהַשְׂכִּילָhaskila
act wisely
To grasp what matters and act wisely.
Where else “haskila” appears- and your mannaמַנְman
manna
The food God gave Israel in the wilderness.
Where else “man” appears- withholdמָנַעְתָּmanata
withhold
Withhold, refuse, hold back.
Where else “manata” appears- from their mouthפִּיpi
mouth
The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
Where else “pi” appears- and waterמַיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- for their thirstצְמָאָtsemaa
thirst
Thirst.
Where else “tsemaa” appears
The context
19you, in your many mercies, did not abandon them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud did not depart from over them by day, to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should go.
20 · This verse (above)
21Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.