Original Language Studio
Nehemiah 9:30
“Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4900 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, [idiom] give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, [idiom] sow, scatter, stretch out.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תִּמְשֹׁ֤ךְ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 36 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 37:28Exodus 12:21Exodus 19:13Deuteronomy 21:3Joshua 6:5
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָשַׁךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.