The Meaning of Haggai 2:1 Explained

Haggai 2:1

KJV: In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

YLT: In the seventh month, in the twenty and first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

Darby: In the seventh month, on the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying,

ASV: In the seventh month , in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

In the seventh  [month], in the one  and twentieth  [day] of the month,  came the word  of the LORD  by  the prophet  Haggai,  saying, 

What does Haggai 2:1 Mean?

Study Notes

seventh month
i.e. October.

Verse Meaning

The Lord revealed another message, an oracle of encouragement, to Haggai almost one month later, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month (Tishri, modern October17) of the same year, 520 B.C. This was the last day of the feast of Tabernacles (Booths). Tishri was a month of celebrations for the Israelites. On the first of this month they celebrated the feast of Trumpets, and on the tenth, the day of Atonement. The feast of Tabernacles lasted seven days, and the following day was a day of rest ( Leviticus 23:33-44).

Context Summary

Haggai 2:1-9 - The True Glory Of God's House
One earnest man can arouse an entire community. Let a fire glow in our hearts, and it will spread. Assured of God's presence and favor, within three weeks the whole land was awake. Note the cooperation of God's Spirit with the message of His servant, "the Lord stirred up." Let us ever seek and rely on His cooperation! "We are witnesses, so also is the Holy Spirit!" Three prophecies occupy the following chapter. In the first, Haggai 1:1-9, the Jews are encouraged to persevere. Although there was no comparison between the glory of Solomon's Temple and the splendor of this, they must not be discouraged. Though they might deplore the absence of the sacred fire of the Shekinah, of the Ark with its cherubim, of the Urim and Thummim, and of the spirit of prophecy, yet the Messiah's presence, which would be associated with the second Temple would more than compensate for their deficiency, since He was the antitype of them all. If we lack many of the advantages and attractions in which others excel, let us be more than satisfied to possess Christ. And be it always remembered that Christian worship seeks to realize the presence of Him who said: "I am in the midst." Without that a cathedral is an empty void; with that, a barn will be heaven. For Haggai 1:6-7 see Hebrews 12:26-28. This little while in God's arithmetic lasted for 517 years. [source]

Chapter Summary: Haggai 2

1  He encourages the people to the work,
4  by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first
10  In the type of holy things and unclean he shows their sins hindered the work
20  God's promise to Zerubbabel

What do the individual words in Haggai 2:1 mean?

In the seventh [month] on twenty and the first of the month came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet saying
בַּשְּׁבִיעִ֕י בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאֶחָ֖ד לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָיָה֙ דְּבַר־ יְהוָ֔ה בְּיַד־ חַגַּ֥י הַנָּבִ֖יא לֵאמֹֽר

בַּשְּׁבִיעִ֕י  In  the  seventh  [month] 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Number, ordinal masculine singular
Root: שְׁבִיעִי  
Sense: seventh.
בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים  on  twenty 
Parse: Preposition-b, Number, common plural
Root: עֶשְׂרִים  
Sense: twenty, twentieth.
וְאֶחָ֖ד  and  the  first 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, masculine singular
Root: אֶחָד  
Sense: one (number).
לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ  of  the  month 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹדֶשׁ  
Sense: the new moon, month, monthly.
הָיָה֙  came 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
דְּבַר־  the  word 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: דָּבָר  
Sense: speech, word, speaking, thing.
יְהוָ֔ה  of  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
חַגַּ֥י  Haggai 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חַגַּי 
Sense: 0th in order of the minor prophets; first prophet to prophecy after the captivity.
הַנָּבִ֖יא  the  prophet 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נָבִיא  
Sense: spokesman, speaker, prophet.
לֵאמֹֽר  saying 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.

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