What Does Nehemiah 11:26 Mean?
And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet,THE KEY
Read as names, this bare itinerary carries a movement from deliverance, through birth, into escape.
THE MEANING
These names gather around you as deliverance, birth, and escape. They make a place itself carry the movement of being brought out into new life and finding a place to dwell.
THE ROOT
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
ישע
To deliver, bringing someone out from constriction into spaciousness.
Jeshua carries the same name-nature as Yeshua: deliverance. The place-name opens the list with the movement of being brought out.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver, bring out.
יָשַׁע
The verb behind the name makes deliverance an active movement.
yeshuah: Deliverance.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the condition carried in Jeshua’s name.
moshia: Deliverer.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who brings another out.
מוֹלָדָה
Moladah
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
Moladah carries the sense of birth or origin. Beside Jeshua, it lets the list hold both being brought out and new life coming forth.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: To bear, bring forth.
יָלַד
The verb expresses the act of birth carried by the place-name.
yeled: Child.
יֶלֶד
The child is what has been brought forth.
toledot: Generations, begettings.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The same root extends birth into the unfolding of generations.
בֵּית־פֶּלֶט
Beth-phelet
GROWS FROM
פלט
To escape, slip away, or survive.
Beth-phelet can be heard as a house of escape: release is given a place to dwell. Following deliverance and birth, the name brings the list to an image of escape held within a home.
ALSO GROWS
palat: To escape, slip away.
פָּלַט
The verb gives the Pelet element its sense of escape.
palit: One who escaped; a survivor.
פָּלִיט
This branch names the one who has made it out.
peletah: Escape, remnant.
פְּלֵיטָה
This noun shows escape as what remains after danger.
THE PATTERN
A name compresses the nature or movement of a life and place into a word.
And he pulled up from there, and dug another well, and over that they did not strive. And he called the name of it Rehoboth, the wide places, and he said, For now the LORD has widened a place for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.You shall no more be called Left Behind, and your land shall no more be called Stunned; but you shall be called Hephzibah, my delight is in her, and your land Beulah, wedded; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be wed.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.Jeshua carries the same name as Yeshua, the Hebrew name rendered Jesus. Matthew ties that name to delivering his people, opening the first place-name here as more than a location label.
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