What Does Nehemiah 11:29 Mean?
And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,THE KEY
The verse makes restoration concrete in named places, beginning with En-rimmon, the spring of the pomegranate.
THE MEANING
Restoration has a location and texture: people belong to particular ground, and En-rimmon’s name holds a spring beside a pomegranate. The list lets you see life as something rooted, inhabited, and named.
THE ROOT
עֵין רִמּוֹן
En-rimmon
GROWS FROM
עין
ayin
The Hebrew form עין (ayin) means eye and also spring or fountain.
The first part of En-rimmon is עֵין, “spring of”; the whole name means “spring of Rimmon,” with Rimmon meaning pomegranate. The same written form עין names both an eye and a spring, holding perception and a source of water in one word.
ALSO GROWS
ayin: Eye; also a spring or fountain.
עַיִן
This is the shared Hebrew form in En-rimmon, where it names a spring.
ma'yan: Spring or fountain.
מַעְיָן
This related word carries the same spring sense that forms the beginning of En-rimmon.
THE PATTERN
Renewed life becomes visible when people inhabit specific places and make them dwellable again.
And they will say, This land that was emptied has become like the garden of Eden, and the dry ruins and the emptied and torn-down cities are walled and settled.Those who come from you shall build the dry ruins of the ages. You shall raise up the foundations of generation to generation, and you shall be called the mender of the breach, the one who turns the paths back to dwell in.And he made from one blood every nation of humankind to settle upon all the face of the earth, marking out their fitted seasons and setting the boundary stones of their dwelling.THE THREAD
Passing through the valley of weeping, they make it a spring. The early rain also wraps itself in blessings.The Hebrew behind “a well” is מַעְיָן (ma’yan), a spring word related to עין (ayin), the spring named at the start of En-rimmon. The name’s water source meets a passage where a place of weeping becomes a well.
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