Nehemiæ 2:7

Nova Vulgata

[2:6] Mitte ergo mihi virum eruditum, qui noverit operari in auro et argento, aere et ferro, purpura, coccino et hyacintho, et qui sciat sculpere caelaturas cum his artificibus, quos mecum habeo in Iudaea et Ierusalem, quos praeparavit David pater meus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Filii Charmi : Achar, qui turbavit Isra�l, et peccavit in furto anathematis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Mitte ergo mihi virum eruditum, qui noverit operari in auro, et argento, �re, et ferro, purpura, coccino, et hyacintho: et qui sciat sculpere c�laturas cum his artificibus quos mecum habeo in Jud�a, et Jerusalem, quos pr�paravit David pater meus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cunning: Exodus 31:3-5, 1 Kings 7:14, Isaiah 28:26, Isaiah 28:29, Isaiah 60:10

to grave: Heb. to grave gravings

whom David: 1 Chronicles 22:15, 1 Chronicles 22:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:22 - brass Exodus 26:31 - cunning work Exodus 28:9 - grave Exodus 31:4 - General 2 Chronicles 2:14 - skilful 2 Chronicles 26:15 - cunning men Isaiah 23:18 - her merchandise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Send now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron,.... There being many things relating to the temple about to be built, and vessels to be put into it, which were to be made of those metals:

and in purple, and crimson, and blue; used in making the vails for it, hung up in different places:

and that can skill to grave; in wood or stone:

with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David did provide; see 1 Chronicles 22:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See 1 Kings 5:6, note; 1 Kings 7:13, note.

Purple ... - “Purple, crimson, and blue,” would be needed for the hangings of the temple, which, in this respect, as in others, was conformed to the pattern of the tabernacle (see Exodus 25:4; Exodus 26:1, etc.). Hiram’s power of “working in purple, crimson,” etc., was probably a knowledge of the best modes of dyeing cloth these colors. The Phoenicians, off whose coast the murex was commonly taken, were famous as purple dyers from a very remote period.

Crimson - כרמיל karmı̂̂yl, the word here and elsewhere translated “crimson,” is unique to Chronicles and probably of Persian origin. The famous red dye of Persia and India, the dye known to the Greeks as κόκκος kokkos, and to the Romans as coccum, is obtained from an insect. Whether the “scarlet” שׁני shânı̂y of Exodus (Exodus 25:4, etc.) is the same or a different red, cannot be certainly determined.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:7. Send me - a man cunning to work — A person of great ingenuity, who is capable of planning and directing, and who may be over the other artists.