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Nehemiah 4

Neh. 4:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And conspired
qashar (Hebrew #7194)
a primitive root: to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
KJV usage: bind (up), (make a) conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work (treason).
Pronounce: kaw-shar'
q all of them together
yachad (Hebrew #3162)
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
KJV usage: alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-)together, withal.
Pronounce: yakh'-ad
Origin: from 3161
to come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
and to fight
lacham (Hebrew #3898)
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
KJV usage: devour, eat, X ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Pronounce: law-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
against Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
, and to κhinder
tow`ah (Hebrew #8442)
mistake, i.e. (morally) impiety, or (political) injury
KJV usage: error, hinder.
Pronounce: to-aw'
Origin: feminine active participle of 8582
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Psa. 2:1‑3• 1Why have the heathen raged,{HR}And do the people meditate a vain thing?
2The kings of the earth set themselves,{HR}And the princes have consulted together,{HR}Against Jehovah and against his anointed:
3"Let us break their bands,{HR}And cast away their cords from us."
(Psa. 2:1‑3)
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Psa. 83:3‑11• 3Against thy people they devise secret craft{HR}And consult against thy hidden ones.
4They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
5For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
6The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
9Do to them as [to] Midian, as [to] Sisera,{HR}As [to] Jabin, at the river Kishon.
10They were destroyed at Endor;{HR}They became dung for the ground.
11Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb;{HR}Yea, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna;
(Psa. 83:3‑11)
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Isa. 8:9‑10• 9Rage, ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth. Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God [is] with us [Immanuel].
(Isa. 8:9‑10)
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Acts 23:12‑13• 12And when it was day the Jews, having made a combination, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13And those that made the conspiracy were more than forty,
(Acts 23:12‑13)
hinder it.
Heb. make an error to it.

J. N. Darby Translation

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and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinderk it.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "harm."

W. Kelly Translation

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and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)