Nehemiah 11:35

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

לד לֹד

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STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

לד

Lôd

Definition

Lod, a place in Palestine

Root

from an unused root of uncertain signification;

Exhaustive

from an unused root of uncertain signification; Lod, a place in Palestine; Lod.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H3850

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

לֹד

noun / proper noun • Root לדד • Strongs / High • Page 770

A breach, fissure, a cutting in the earth, a division. Also a proper noun for a village inhabited by the Benjamites, later known as Diospolis.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

לֹד

proper name • Page 341

Lydda, (now Loddo,) proper name of a large village in the tribe of Benjamin, in later times the seat of a Rabbinical school. Neh. 7: 37; 11: 35. 1 Chr. 8: 12. Ezra 2: 33.

Noun proper name

LXX: λοδ

LXX Usage Statistics

H3850:

λοδ 3× (76.1%)

ואונו וְאוֹנוֹ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

אונו

ʼÔwnôw

Definition

Ono, a place in Palestine

Root

or (shortened) אנו; prolonged from H202 (און); strong;

Exhaustive

or (shortened) אנו; prolonged from און; strong; Ono, a place in Palestine; Ono.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H207

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

אוֹנוֹ

noun proper • Root און • Strongs_Numbers • Page 80

Proper name of a city in the neighbourhood of Lydda, built by the Benjamites; meaning 'rich, gain-bringing'.

Conjunction, Noun proper name

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0207:

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גי גֵּי

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

גיא

gayʼ

Definition

a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)

Root

or (shortened) גי; probably (by transmutation) from the same root as H1466 (גוה) (abbreviated);

Exhaustive

or (shortened) גי; probably (by transmutation) from the same root as גוה (abbreviated); a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent); valley.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1516

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

גֵּיא

noun feminine • Root גאה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 321

Contracted from גַּאֲוָה, meaning pride or majesty. It appears only in Zechariah 14:4 and more frequently in its plural form גֵּיאוֹת.

Matched via consonantal key only

גֵּיא

noun feminine • Root גאה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 321

An abridged form of גֵּיא, meaning a valley. Found in Isaiah 40:4.

Matched via consonantal key only

גַּיְא

noun • Root גאה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 320

A morass or lowland; a valley, a low place. Often used in designations of places, such as גֵּיא־הִנֹּם (valley of Hinnom), גֵּיא הַחֲרָשִׁים (valley of craftsmanship), גֵּיא־הַמֶּלַח (valley of salt), and others.

Matched via consonantal key only

גַּיְא

noun • Root גוה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 320

for גֵּוָה, and only in the pl. גֵּיאוֹת.

Matched via consonantal key only

גַּיְא / גֵּיא

noun feminine • Root גאה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 321

a valley. It is used to refer to specific places, such as the valley of Hinnom (Jer. 2:23), and figuratively, as in 'the valley of the shadow of death' (Ps. 23:4).

Matched via consonantal key only

Noun common both singular construct

LXX: φάραγγοσ φάραγγι φάραγξ γαι πολυάνδριον

LXX Usage Statistics

H1516:

φάραγγοσ 7× (11.3%)

φάραγγι 6× (8.9%)

φάραγξ 5× (8.7%)

γαι 5× (7.7%)

πολυάνδριον 5× (7.3%)

--- 3× (5.4%)

pεἰσ 2× (3.6%)

χάοσ 2× (3.3%)

'' 2× (3.1%)

ὄρουσ 2× (3.1%)

החרשים הַחֲרָשִׁים׃

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ה

Definition

the

Root

Demonstrative primitive

Exhaustive

definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

חרשים

Chărâshîym

Definition

mechanics, the name of a valley in Jerusalem

Root

plural of H2796 (חרש);

Exhaustive

plural of חרש; mechanics, the name of a valley in Jerusalem; Charashim, craftsmen.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2798

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

חֵרֵשׁ

verb / adjective • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

to form with skill, to fashion, in wood, stone, or metal. Also means deaf (as an adjective).

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֵרֵשׁ

noun masculine • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 538

Deaf, whose ears are silent; also used in a metaphorical sense for a serpent deaf to enchantment.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֶרֶשׂ

noun / masculine • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

1. loam, clay, a material for earthen ware; a pitcher. 2. potsherds, vessels broken into sherds, fragments of a cup. 3. Used in the proper name of the chief city of Moab.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֶרֶשׂ

noun proper • Consonantal / Low • Page 538

A proper name of a wooded mountain in the desert of Judah, also a hill in the same place.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֶרֶשׁ

noun / proper name • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

A derivative noun related to fashioning or magic. Also a proper name.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 535

1. To cut in, grave (on wood, metal, or stone); to divide, split. 2. To plough. 3. To fabricate with skill, to fashion. Figuratively, to devise or machinate.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

A primary root with several distinct meanings: 1. to cut in, engrave, plough, fabricate. 2. to be silent, still, deaf. 3. (as חָרַס) to be rough.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

I. Same as חרס, חרך; to shine, to glitter, therefore to be green, to grow, to shine in green (spoken of a wood).

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

II. 1. to speak softly, in a whispering, murmuring manner (like magicians), to practise magic. 2. to be silent, quiet, still, inactive.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

I. to be soft, viscous, of plaster, clay.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

II. (not used) intransitive. to become or be rough, of potsherds.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרַשׁ

verb • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 1534

Either intransitive: an intensive of Kal to be very firm, strengthened, hard (of districts, stones, or men); or transitive: to establish, a colony, or to have a firm soil (of coasts, opposing the sea). Derivat. the proper name חֲרִשִׁית.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרָשׁ

noun / masculine • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

I. a cutter in wood, metal or stone; one cutting, graving or fabricating. It can refer to a stone-cutter, blacksmith, joiner, locksmith, or architect.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרָשׁ

noun / masculine • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

II. a workman, artificer.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרָשׁ

noun / masculine • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

artificial work; in plural (חֳרָשִׁים), it means skilled in arts or skilful artificers. Can also mean skilled in magic arts.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חָרֹשׁ

adjective • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

wooded, dense; an adjective describing foliage which causes shade.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֹרֵשׁ

noun masculine • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 538

1. (participial form) A worker, specifically in brass. 2. (abstract form) A cutting instrument.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֹרֶשׁ

noun • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 536

A forest, thicket.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

חֹרֶשׁ

noun / masculine • Root חרש • Consonantal / Low • Page 537

a thicket, forest.

Matched via prefix/suffix stripped stem

Particle definite article, Noun common masculine plural absolute

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H2798:

No stats available

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Lod and Ono, valley of artificers. 36And from the Levites divisions of Judah to Benjamin.

LITV Translation:
Lod and Ono, the Valley of Craftsmen.