Nehemiah 13:3

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Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.	Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.	And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, [was] allied unto Tobiah:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Now it came to pass, when they had heard^H8085 the law^H8451, that they separated^H914 from Israel^H3478 all the mixed multitude^H6154.

Original Hebrew

וַיְהִי כְּשָׁמְעָם אֶת־הַתֹּורָה וַיַּבְדִּילוּ כָל־עֵרֶב מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יְהִ֖י	va/y.Hi	H1961	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ it was
כְּ/שָׁמְעָ֣/ם	ke./sha.me.'A/m	H8085	HR/Vqc/Sp3mp	when/ heard/ they
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
הַ/תּוֹרָ֑ה	ha./to.Rah	H8451	HTd/Ncfsa	the/ law
וַ/יַּבְדִּ֥ילוּ	va/i.yav.Di.lu	H914	HC/Vhw3mp	and/ they separated
כָל	khol-	H3605	HNcmsc	every
עֵ֖רֶב	'E.rev	H6154	HNcmsa	person of mixed ancestry
מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל	mi./Yis.ra.'El	H3478	HR/Np	from/ Israel

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H914 — בָּדַל (bâdal, baw-dal'): a primitive root; to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.); (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), [idiom] utterly.
H3478 — יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'): from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
H6154 — עֵרֶב (ʻêreb, ay'-reb): or עֶרֶב; (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article [prefix), from עָרַב; the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race); Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude), woof.
H8085 — שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ, shaw-mah'): a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.); [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
H8451 — תּוֹרָה (tôwrâh, to-raw'): or תֹּרָה; from יָרָה; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch; law.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

that they — Ezra 10:11, Nehemiah 9:2, Nehemiah 10:28, James 1:27
the mixed — Exodus 12:38, Numbers 11:4
when they — Psalms 19:7-11, Psalms 119:9, Psalms 119:11, Proverbs 6:23, Romans 3:20

Reciprocal references (3): Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:2, Ezra 10:8

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