King James Version
Nehemiah 6:4 in the King James Version says “Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.” — study this verse from Nehemiah chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.”
Nehemiah 6:4 · KJV
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words. Gashmu: or, Geshem
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Yet they sent”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
“after this sort”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“times”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
“and I answered”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“after this sort”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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