“Hear us, my lord: you are the elect of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold his burial place from you for burying your dead.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
שמענו
466
אדני
65
נשיא
361
אלהים
86
אתה
406
בתוכנו
484
במבחר
252
קברינו
368
קבר
302
אתמתך
861
איש
311
ממנו
136
אתקברו
709
לאיכלה
96
ממך
100
מקבר
342
מתך
460
Genesis 23:7
Gematria: 2070
ויקםאברהםוישתחולעםהארץלבניחת
Thereupon Abraham bowed low to the landowning citizens, landowning citizens Heb. ‘am ha-’areṣ; lit. “people of the land.” See the Dictionary under ‘am. the Hittites,
Let him sell me the cave of Machpelah that he owns, which is at the edge of his land. Let him sell it to me, at the full price, for a burial site in your midst.”
Ephron was present among the Hittites; so Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, the assembly in his town’s gate, ” So NJPS, with a note: “I.e., all his fellow townsmen.” Cf. 34.20; Prov. 31.23. saying,
Translation Notes
*the assembly in his town’s gate — Lit. “all who entered the gate of his town.
and spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the landowning citizens, saying, “If only you would hear me out! Let me pay the price of the land; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
אלעפרון
437
באזני
70
עםהארץ
406
לאמר
271
אך
21
אםאתה
447
לו
36
שמעני
470
נתתי
860
כסף
160
השדה
314
קח
108
ממני
140
ואקברה
314
אתמתי
851
שמה
345
Genesis 23:14
Gematria: 1498
ויעןעפרוןאתאברהםלאמרלו
And Ephron replied to Abraham, saying to him,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויען
136
עפרון
406
אתאברהם
649
לאמר
271
לו
36
Genesis 23:15
Gematria: 3516
אדנישמעניארץארבעמאתשקלכסףביניובינךמההואואתמתךקבר
“My lord, do hear me! A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Go and bury your dead.”
Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms. Abraham paid out to Ephron the money that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites—four hundred shekels of silver at the going merchants’ rate.