King James Version
Nehemiah 4:6 in the King James Version says “So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.”
Nehemiah 4:6 · KJV
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: despised: Heb. despite
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up , and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, were made up: Heb. ascended
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. to hinder: Heb. to make an error to it
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“was joined together”
H7194to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“had a mind”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“thereof for the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
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