What Does Ezra 6:15 Mean?
And this house was made whole on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.THE KEY
The finished house is located in two kinds of time at once: the moon’s returning month and a king’s numbered reign.
THE MEANING
A meaningful work can come to completion inside the cycles and power already surrounding you. Its completion has a day, a month, and a year; the world around it continues moving.
THE ROOT
יְרַח
yeraḥ
GROWS FROM
ירח
y-r-ḥ
Moon; the cycle of a lunar month.
The Aramaic word for month shares its root with the Hebrew word for moon, so the date is more than an abstract number: it is marked by a returning cycle. The house’s completion is located within that recurring time.
ALSO GROWS
yareach: Moon.
יָרֵחַ
The Hebrew word for moon reveals the lunar connection held within the Aramaic word for month.
yeraḥ: Month.
יֶרַח
This Hebrew form preserves the same link between a month and the moon’s recurring cycle.
מַלְכוּת
malkut
GROWS FROM
מלך
m-l-k
To rule or reign as king.
The Aramaic words for “reign” and “king” share one root, tying the date to the human authority in power. The house reaches completion within that measured span of rule.
ALSO GROWS
melekh: King.
מֶלֶךְ
The verse names the king whose reign frames the year of completion.
malkut: Reign or kingdom.
מַלְכוּת
This is the word-family form that places the house’s completion within a span of royal rule.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling set apart for God takes shape through human hands and reaches a real point of completion.
And he raised up the enclosure all around the dwelling and the altar, and set the screen at the gate of the enclosure. So Moses finished the work.The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will also finish it, and you will perceive that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.For we are fellow workers with God. You are God's field; you are God's building.THE THREAD
He makes the moon for appointed times; the sun perceives its going in.Psalm 104:19 makes the lunar measure of time explicit. Ezra’s Aramaic word for month, יְרַח (yeraḥ), shares the root ירח (y-r-ḥ) with the Hebrew word for moon, יָרֵחַ (yareach), placing the house’s completion within a returning cycle of light.
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