Ezra 4:8
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:”
עַל
{above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications}
טְעֵם
command
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טְעֵם
properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)
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כְּתַב
they wrote
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כְּתַב
{to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)}
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חַד
one
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חַד
as card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once
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רְחוּם
Rehum
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רְחוּם
Rechum, the name of a Persian and of three Israelites
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בְּעֵל
lord of
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בְּעֵל
{a master; hence, a husband,}
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סָפֵר
scribe/ the
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סָפֵר
a scribe (secular or sacred)
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יְרוּשָׁלֵם
Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלֵם
{Jerusalem}
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כְּנֵמָא
as follows
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כְּנֵמָא
so or thus
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מֶלֶךְ
king/ the
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מֶלֶךְ
a king
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