Nehemiah Chapter 13

Separation of the mixed multitude

13:1 On that day they read in the book of Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” click here in the audience of the people; and in it was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
Transliteration: hā’ĕlōhîm, the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator forever;
13:2 Because they met not the sons of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here with bread and with water, but hired Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here against them, that he should curse them: however our Elohim אֱלֹהֵינוּ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhênû – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here turned the curse into a blessing.
13:3 Now it so happened, when they had heard the Torahהַתּוֹרָה‎
Transliteration: hatôrâ; “Instruction”, “Teaching” or “Law”) The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot., they separated  all the mixed multitude from Israelמִיִּשְׂרָאֵ
Transliteration: mîyiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here.
13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priestהַכֹּהֵן
hakōhēn, ko-hane’ the Kohen = the priest,the principal officer or the chief ruler For more info click here, who was set over of the rooms of the house of our Elohim אֱלֹהֵינוּ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhênû – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, was related to Tobiahלְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration lᵊṭôḇîyâ Tobiah = “YAHWEH is good” 1. head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel 2. the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem 3. a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat 4. a chief of the returning exiles For more info click here:
13:5 And he had prepared for him a large room, where they had in days past laid the food offering, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded [to be given] to the Levitesהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: halvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
For more info click here, and the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the offerings of the priestsהַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration: hakōhănîm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here.
13:6 But in all this [time] I wasn’t in Jerusalemבִּירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: bîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here: for in the thirty second year  of Artaxerxesאַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא
Artaḥšaśtəʾ, אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא ʾArtaḥšastəʾ, or אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא ʾArtaḥšaśtāʾwas the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to December 424 BC.He was the third son of Xerxes I. In Greek sources he is also surnamed “long-handed” (Ancient Greek: μακρόχειρ Makrókheir; Latin: Longimanus), allegedly because his right hand was longer than his left. For more info click here king of Babylonבָּבֶל
Transliteration:bāḇel Pronunciation:baw-vel’, Babel or Babylon = “confusion (by mixing)” , the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq) situated on the Euphrates For more info click here, I came to the king, and after some days I asked leave from the king:
13:7 And I came to Jerusalemלִירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: lîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, and understood the evilבָרָעָה‎
Transliteration: ḇārāʿâ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here that Eliashib had done for Tobiahלְטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration lᵊṭôḇîyâ Tobiah = “YAHWEH is good” 1. head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel 2. the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem 3. a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat 4. a chief of the returning exiles For more info click here, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
hā’ĕlōhîm, the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator.
13:8 And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiahטוֹבִיָּה‎
Transliteration ṭôḇîyâ Pronunciation to-bee-yaw’ Tobiah = “YAHWEH is good” 1. head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel 2. the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem 3. a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat 4. a chief of the returning exiles For more info click here out of the room.
13:9 Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I returned the vessels of the house of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, with the food offering and the frankincense.

Reform of abuses

13:10 And I was aware that the portions of the Levitesהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: halvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
For more info click here had not been given, for the Levitesהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: halvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
For more info click here and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field.
13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of Elohimהָאֱלֹהִים
the God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here forsaken? And I gathered them together, and put them in their place.
13:12 Then brought all Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries.
13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah (meaning repaid by Yahweh) the priestהַכֹּהֵן
hakōhēn, ko-hane’ the Kohen = the priest,the principal officer or the chief ruler For more info click here, and Zadokוְצָדוֹק
Transliteration: vᵊṣāḏôq – Meaning “righteous” – 1. the high priest, son of Ahitub of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and 11th in descent from Aaron; joined David after Saul’s death and supported him against Absalom and Adonijah; anointed Solomon as king, 2. a priest, son of Meraioth, father of Meshullam of the house of Ahitub; apparently a nephew of 1, 3. father of Jerusha, the wife of king Uzziah and mother of king Jotham of Judah, 4.son of Baana and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah, 5. son of Immer and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah, 6. a leader of the people in the time of Nehemiah, 7. a scribe appointed by Nehemiah as one of the treasurers over the storehouse, 8. a valiant warrior of the tribe of Benjamin who joined David at Hebron. Same as 1?
For more info click here the scribe, and of the Levitesהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: halvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
For more info click here, Pedaiah. and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brothers.
13:14 Remember me, O my Elohimאֱלֹהַי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, concerning this, and don’t wipe out kindnessחֶסֶד‎
Transliteration: ḥeseḏ – goodness, kindness, faithfulness, lovingkindness, mercy, For more info click here that I have done for the house of my Elohimאֱלֹהַי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, and its keeping.
13:15 In those days saw I in Judahבִיהוּדָה‎
Transliteration: ḇîhûḏâ literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here [ones] treading wine presses on the Sabbathבַּשַּׁבָּתוֹת‎
Transliteration: baššabāṯôṯ, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, and bringing in sheaves, and loading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, that they brought to Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here on the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here day. And I testified [against] them on the day they sold food.
13:16 Men of Tyre also lived in it, who brought fish, and all wares, and were selling on the Sabbathבַּשַּׁבָּתוֹת‎
Transliteration: baššabāṯôṯ, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here to the sons of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here, and in Jerusalemוּבִירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: ûḇîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here.
13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What is this evilהָרָע‎
Transliteration: hārāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here thing that ya’ll do, and defiling the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here day?
13:18 Didn’t your forefathers do this, and didn’t our Elohim אֱלֹהֵינוּ
Pronounced:’ĕlōhênû – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here bring all this evilהָרָעָה‎
Transliteration: hārāʿâ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here on us, and on this city? Yet ya’ll bring more wrath on Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here by defiling the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here.
13:19 And it so happened, that when the gates of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here began to be dark before the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, I commanded that the gates should be closed, and commanded that they shouldn’t be opened until after the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here. And I stood [some] of my servants at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here day.
13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all wares stayed the night outside Jerusalemלִירוּשָׁלִָם‎
Transliteration: lîrûšālām – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here once or twice.
13:21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why are ya’ll staying around the wall? If ya’ll do it again, I will send hand against you. From that time they didn’t come [anymore] on the Sabbathבַּשַּׁבָּתוֹת‎
Transliteration: baššabāṯôṯ, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday – For more info click here.
13:22 And I commanded the Levitesלַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: lalvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
For more info click here that they should be cleansing themselves, and that they should guarding the gates, to sanctifyלְקַדֵּשׁ‎
Transliteration lᵊqadēš; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly. For more info click here the Sabbathהַשַּׁבָּת‎
Transliteration: haššabāṯ, [ʃa’bat], lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here day. O my Elohimאֱלֹהַי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, Remember me,  concerning this too, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy.

Living with foreign women

13:23 In those days I saw the Jewsהַיְּהוּדִים
Transliteration: hayyᵊhûḏîm – Jew (74x), Judah (1x) The term ‘Yehudi’ (derived from Yeddah, or Judah, fourth son of Jacob) has become a synonym for Jew. Yehudah’s mother gave him that name because she said, ‘I will praise God.’ Yehudah is thus a declaration that Jews always praise God, hence the common name Yehudi regardless of tribal origin (Sfas Emes) for more info click here too that had lived with women from Ashdod, Ammonעַמֳּנִיּוֹת‎
Transliteration: ammŏnîyôṯ – Ammon = “tribal” From Ben-ammi son of Lot and his youngest daughter click here Referring to the Ammonites (or sons of Ammon) the people living in Transjordan., Moabמוֹאֲבִיּוֹת‎
Transliteration:mô’ăḇîyôṯ Moabites = “of his father” Son of Lot and his oldest daughter click here also the land of Moab’s descendants:
13:24 And their children spoke half [in the speech] of Ashdod, and there was could no [one] caring to speak in Hebrewיְהוּדִית
Transliteration:yᵊhûḏîṯ – Pronunciation:yeh-hoo-deeth’ in the Jewish language, in Hebrew The biblical term Ivri Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕivˈri]), meaning “to traverse” or “to pass over”, is usually rendered as Hebrew in English from ever (עֵבֶר) ‘beyond, across’ (avar (עָבַר ‘he crossed, he traversed’), as a description of migrants ‘from across the river’ as the Bible describes the Hebrews. For more info click here, but according to the language of each people.
13:25 And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck [some] of them, and pulled their hair, and made them swear by Elohimבֵּאלֹהִים
Transliteration: bē’lōhîm, the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator, [saying], Ya’ll shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.
13:26 Didn’t Solomonשְׁלֹמֹה‎
His two names mean “peaceful” and “friend of God”, both considered “predictive of the character of his reign Reign 970–931 BCE (hypothesized)For more info click here king of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here sinחָטָא
Transliteration:ḥāṭā’ Pronunciation: khate – sin, guilt for sin, punishment for sin, a crime or its penalty, offense, (punishment of) sin – For more info click here by these things? Yet among many nationsוּבַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: ûḇagôyim – yet among | nations – (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here there was no king like him, who was beloved of his Elohim לֵאלֹהָיו
of His God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, and Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator made him king over all Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here. But women from other lands caused him to sinהֶחֱטִיאוּ
Transliteration: heḥĕṭî’û – sin, guilt for sin, punishment for sin, a crime or its penalty, offense, (punishment of) sin – For more info click here.
13:27 Shall we then listen to you, to do all this great evilהָרָעָה‎
Transliteration: hārāʿâ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here, to sin against our Elohim בֵאלֹהֵינוּ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here by living with foreign women?
13:28 And [one] of the sons of Joiada (or Jehoiada), the son of Eliashib the high priestהַכֹּהֵן
hakōhēn, ko-hane’ the Kohen = the priest,the principal officer or the chief ruler For more info click here, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I chased him from me.
13:29 Remember them, O my Elohimאֱלֹהָי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, because they have defiled the priest’s officeהַכְּהֻנָּה
Transliteration: hakhunnâ , priesthood, priest’s office For more info click here, and the covenant of the priest’s officeהַכְּהֻנָּה
Transliteration: hakhunnâ , priesthood, priest’s office For more info click here, and of the Levites וְהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: vᵊhalvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
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13:30 So cleansed I them from all aliens, and appointed the watches of the priestsלַכֹּהֲנִים
Transliteration: lakōhănîm – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here and the Levites וְהַלְוִיִּם
Transliteration: vᵊhalvîyim Hebrew Noun: Gentilic Masculine Plural Absolute – Meaning “joined to” – the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah – the tribe descended from Levi specially set aside by God for His service
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13:31 And for the wood offering, at appointed times , and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my Elohimאֱלֹהַי
my God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here, for goodלְטוֹבָה
Transliteration: lᵊṭôḇâ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair, (be in) favor, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -lie, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, like (best), loving, merry, × most, pleasant, please, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well(-favored). For more info click here.