Nehemiah 5:5
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.”
בָּשָׂר
Flesh, body, skin. Basar. The physical human body. God became flesh in Jesus. He took on our basar to redeem it from the inside.
בֵּן
children/ our
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בֵּן
Son. Ben. A son with full rights. You are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Full rights. Full access. Full inheritance.
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יָד
hand/ our
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יָד
Hand. Yad. The hand as the symbol of power and action. When God's hand rests on a life nothing is impossible.
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בַּת
daughters/ our
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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כָּבַשׁ
are bringing into bondage
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כָּבַשׁ
are bringing into bondage
to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate, violate
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