The Meaning of 2 Chronicles 2:2 Explained

2 Chronicles 2:2

KJV: And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

YLT: and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and overseers over them -- three thousand and six hundred.

Darby: And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to superintend them.

ASV: And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Solomon  told out  threescore and ten  thousand  men  to bear burdens,  and fourscore  thousand  to hew  in the mountain,  and three  thousand  and six  hundred  to oversee  them. 

What does 2 Chronicles 2:2 Mean?

Chapter Summary: 2 Chronicles 2

1  Solomon's laborers for the building of the temple
3  His ambassage to Huram for workmen and provisions
11  Huram sends him a kind answer

What do the individual words in 2 Chronicles 2:2 mean?

And selected Solomon seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand to quarry [stone] in the mountains and to oversee them three thousand and six hundred -
וַיִּסְפֹּ֨ר שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ אִ֣ישׁ סַבָּ֔ל וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף חֹצֵ֣ב בָּהָ֑ר וּמְנַצְּחִ֣ים עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת פ

וַיִּסְפֹּ֨ר  And  selected 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: סָפַר 
Sense: to count, recount, relate.
שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה  Solomon 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שְׁלֹמֹה  
Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
שִׁבְעִ֥ים  seventy 
Parse: Number, common plural
Root: שִׁבְעִים  
Sense: seventy.
אֶ֙לֶף֙  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
אִ֣ישׁ  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
סַבָּ֔ל  to  bear  burdens 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: סַבָּל  
Sense: burden-bearer.
וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥ים  and  eighty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: שְׁמֹנִים  
Sense: eighty, fourscore.
אֶ֛לֶף  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
חֹצֵ֣ב  to  quarry  [stone] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חָצֵב 
Sense: to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason.
בָּהָ֑ר  in  the  mountains 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: הַר  
Sense: hill, mountain, hill country, mount.
וּמְנַצְּחִ֣ים  and  to  oversee 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Participle, masculine plural
Root: נָצַח  
Sense: to excel, be bright, be preeminent, be perpetual, be overseer, be enduring.
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת  three 
Parse: Number, masculine singular construct
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
אֲלָפִ֖ים  thousand 
Parse: Number, masculine plural
Root: אֶלֶף 
Sense: a thousand.
וְשֵׁ֥שׁ  and  six 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular
Root: שֵׁשׁ  
Sense: six.
מֵאֽוֹת  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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