2 Kingschapter 12
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2 Kings 12— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Joash does right all the days of Jehoiada the priest1
2 Kings 12:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 12:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Kings 12:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
A chest with a hole bored in the lid — repairs at last6
2 Kings 12:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Kings 12:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 12:11
Whenever. A daily occurrence (constantly). 9 I.e., when they saw that the boxes were full they would “bag and count the money.”—Radak They saw that there was much money in the box, and they would go up—the king’s scribe [and the Kohein Gadol ] etc.
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2 Kings 12:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 12:12
They gave the counted money. They would give the counted money, i.e., after it was taken out of the chest and weighed.
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2 Kings 12:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 12:13
And the masons. The builders of the wall, the architects’ apprentices.
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2 Kings 12:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 12:14
Silver pitchers, musical instruments. They are musical instruments. 12 Although Scripture in II Divrei Hayomim:14 indicates that they used this money for making ministering vessels, the Gemara in Maseches Kesubos 106b explains that the primary purpose of this money was for repairs.
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2 Kings 12:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
2 Kings 12:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on II Kings 12:16
They did not demand and accounting from the men. The supervisors would not make an accounting with the treasurers that the supervisors would give the money—continually—into whose hand to give it to the workers, because they were not suspect in their eyes, for they worked with integrity.
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Temple gold sent to Hazael; servants strike the king in his bed17
2 Kings 12:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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2 Kings 12:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
