Nehemiah 5:11

Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Restore	הָשִׁיבוּ֩ ha.shi.Vu	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
day	כְּהַיּ֗וֹם ke.hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
lands	שְׂדֹתֵיהֶ֛ם se.do.tei.Hem	H7704	a field (as flat) · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
vineyards	כַּרְמֵיהֶ֥ם kar.mei.Hem	H3754	a garden or vineyard · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
oliveyards	זֵיתֵיהֶ֖ם zei.tei.Hem	H2132	an olive (as yielding illuminating oil) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
houses	וּבָתֵּיהֶ֑ם u.va.tei.Hem	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
hundredth	וּמְאַ֨ת u.me.'At	H3967	a hundred · conjunction + cardinal number, feminine singular construct
money	הַכֶּ֤סֶף ha.Ke.sef	H3701	silver (from its pale color) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
corn	וְהַדָּגָן֙ ve.ha.da.Gan	H1715	properly · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
wine	הַתִּיר֣וֹשׁ ha.ti.Ro.osh	H8492	must or fresh grape-juice (as just squeezed out) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
oil	וְהַיִּצְהָ֔ר ve.hai.yitz.Har	H3323	oil (as producing light) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
exact	נֹשִׁ֥ים no.Shim	H5383	to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or inter… · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural absolute

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Cross-references

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and…
Leviticus 6:4-5 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath…
1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom ha…
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Nehemiah 5:3-4 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:6-13

It should seem the foregoing complaint was made to Nehemiah at the time when he had his head and hands as full as possible of the public business about building the wall; yet, perceiving it to be just, he did not reject it because it was unseasonable; he did not chide the petitioners, nor fall into a passion with them, for disturbing him when they saw how much he had to do, a fault which men of business are too often guilty of; nor did he so much as adjourn the hearing of the cause or proceedings upon it till he had more leisure. The case called for speedy interposition, and therefore he applied himself immediately to the consideration of it, knowing that, let him build Jerusalem's walls eve…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 5:6

THE USURERS REBUKED. (Neh 5:6-19) I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words--When such disorders came to the knowledge of the governor, his honest indignation was roused against the perpetrators of the evil. Having summoned a public assembly, he denounced their conduct in terms of just severity. He contrasted it with his own in redeeming with his money some of the Jewish exiles who, through debt or otherwise, had lost their personal liberty in Babylon. He urged the rich creditors not only to abandon their illegal and oppressive system of usury, but to restore the fields and vineyards of the poor, so that a remedy might be put to an evil the introduction of which had led to muc…

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Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 5:11

Also the hundredth part of the money - Houbigant contends, 1. That the word מאת meath, which we and the Vulgate translate one hundredth part, never means so anywhere; and 2. That it would have answered no end to have remitted to people so distressed merely the one hundredth part of the money which had been taken from them by usury. He understands מאת meath as signifying the same as מן את min eth, contracted into מאת meeth, a preposition and demonstrative particle joined together, also a part From The money. Neither the Syriac, Septuagint, nor Arabic acknowledges this hundredth part. Some think that the hundredth part is that which they obliged the poor debtors to pay each month, which would…

Dictionary and topics

Jubilee — A joyful shout or clangour of trumpets, the name of the great semi-centennial festival of the Hebrews. It lasted for a year. During this year the land was to be fallow, and the Israelites were only…
Beneficence · .The Jews who returned from the exile — .The Jews who returned from the exile
Borrowing · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Country · LOVE OF — LOVE OF
Creditor · OPPRESSIONS OF — OPPRESSIONS OF
Creditors · Sometimes entirely remitted debts — Sometimes entirely remitted debts
Example · GOOD — GOOD
Interest · but not generally signifying unlawful or unjust rates) — but not generally signifying unlawful or unjust rates)
Kindness · .The Jews to the people — .The Jews to the people
Lending · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Money · Silver used as — Silver used as
Olive Tree, The · Cultivated: In olive yards — Cultivated: In olive yards
Rich, The · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Nehemiah 5:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:6-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 5:6

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 5:11

Dictionary and topics

Nehemiah 5:11

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:6-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 5:6

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 5:11

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Nehemiah 5:11

Keil & Delitzsch on Nehemiah 5:6-13

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Nehemiah 5:11

Rashi on Nehemiah 5:11