3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Nehemiah 4:3. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל אֶל־אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד מִשְׁמָ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם יוֹמָ֥ם וָלַ֖יְלָה מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
וַנִּתְפַּלֵּ֖ל
אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ
וַנַּעֲמִ֨יד
מִשְׁמָ֧ר
עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם
וָלַ֖יְלָה
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܨ̇ܠܝܢ ܩܕܡ ܐܠܗܐ ܕܢܩܝܡ ܥܠܝܢ ܢܛܘܪ̈ܐ ܒܐܝܡܡܐ ܘܒܠܠܝܐ ܡܢ ܩܕܡܝܗܘܢ
ܘܨ̇ܠܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܨܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- wslyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 6
ܩܕܡ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܕܡ
- Transliteration
- qdm
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1019
ܐܠܗܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܐܠܗܐ
- Transliteration
- alaha
- Morphology
- noun, masculine emphatic singular
- Gloss
- God
- Occurrences
- 940
ܕܢܩܝܡ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܢܩܝܡ
- Transliteration
- dnqym
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 9
ܥܠܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- 'lyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 130
ܢܛܘܪ̈ܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܛܘܪܐ
- Transliteration
- ntwr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 21
ܒܐܝܡܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܐܝܡܡܐ
- Transliteration
- b'ymm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 40
ܘܒܠܠܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܒܠܠܝܐ
- Transliteration
- wblly'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 24
ܡܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܢ
- Transliteration
- mn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 5552
ܩܕܡܝܗܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܕܡܝܗܘܢ
- Transliteration
- qdmyhwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 62
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Sed et Tobias Ammanites, proximus ejus, ait: Ædificent: si ascenderit vulpes, transiliet murum eorum lapideum.
sed
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sed
- Transliteration
- sed
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1637
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
Tobias
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tobia
- Transliteration
- Tobias
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 22
Ammanites
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ammanites
- Transliteration
- Ammanites
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 4
proximus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- propior
- Transliteration
- proximus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 158
eius
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eius
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
ait
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- aio
- Transliteration
- ait
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1222
aedificent
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- aedifico
- Transliteration
- aedificent
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 449
si
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- si
- Transliteration
- si
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1970
ascenderit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ascendo
- Transliteration
- ascenderit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 671
vulpis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uulpes
- Transliteration
- vulpis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 8
transiliet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- transilio
- Transliteration
- transiliet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 5
murum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- murus
- Transliteration
- murum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 213
eorum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eorum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
lapideum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- lapideus
- Transliteration
- lapideum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 20
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate tradition
The current Greek Brenton source archive does not expose this as the same canonical book. Related Greek Esther/Ezra traditions are tracked under separate or alternate structures where available.
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Targum Aramaic
not in current source set
No license-clean Targum panel is currently mapped for this book in the imported public-domain source set.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Nehemiah 2:19
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
3 relevance votes2 Kings 18:23
And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.
2 relevance votes1 Kings 20:18
And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.
2 relevance votesNehemiah 2:10
And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.
2 relevance votes1 Kings 20:10
Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.
2 relevance votesNehemiah 6:1
Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);
1 relevance votesLamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
1 relevance votes