Nehemiah 4:6 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Nehemiah 4:6 in 6 Bible Translations

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Nehemiah 4:6 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — World English Bible

Nehemiah 4:6 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — American Standard Version

Nehemiah 4:6 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined--unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — Young's Literal Translation

Nehemiah 4:6 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to the half thereof; for the people had a mind to work.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — Darby Translation

Nehemiah 4:6 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“So we built the wall, and all the wall was ioyned vnto the halfe thereof, and the heart of the people was to worke.”

Nehemiah 4:6 — Geneva Bible

Nehemiah 4:6 in Context — Nehemiah 4

4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

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What Does Nehemiah 4:6 Mean?

Nehemiah 4:6 is a verse from the Book of Nehemiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Nehemiah chapter 4. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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