Haggaichapter 1
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Original Language
Haggai 1— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Haggai 1. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
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.
You live in paneled houses while my house lies waste1
Haggai 1:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Haggai 1:1
In the second year of King Darius This was Darius king of Persia, who succeeded Ahasuerus. We find in Midrash Leviticus Rabbah (13:4) that he was Esther’s son.
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Haggai 1:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Consider your ways: you sowed much and brought in little7
Haggai 1:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Haggai 1:10
because of you the heavens have kept back Because of your sins.
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Haggai 1:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
The people obeyed and the LORD stirred up their spirit12
Haggai 1:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Haggai 1:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Haggai 1:13
in [fulfilling] the Lord’s mission In the messengership of the Omnipresent.
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Haggai 1:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Haggai 1:14
and they came and performed labor They commenced cutting stones and sawing trees in the sixth month, on the twenty fourth of the month; and in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day, the word of the Lord came to Haggai.
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Haggai 1:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible