Numbers 9:8

American Standard Version (1901)

And Moses said unto them, Stay ye, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה עִמְד֣וּ וְאֶשְׁמְעָ֔ה מַה־יְצַוֶּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לָכֶֽם׃ פ

Transliteration

wayyōʾmer to them Mōšeh ʿimḏû and ʾešmə'āh what yəṣawweh YHWH for you.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *ʿimḏû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - stand/wait
• *ʾešmə'āh*: Qal cohortative, 1st common singular - let me hear
• *yəṣawweh*: Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will command
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *lāḵem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - for you

Word Meanings

• *ʿimḏû*: stand/wait/remain
• *ʾešmə'āh*: let me hear/listen/find out
• *yəṣawweh*: commands/orders/instructs

Referenced Verses

• Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.
• Num 27:5 : 5 And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.
• 2 Chr 20:17 : 17 Ye shall not need to fight in this [battle] : set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of Jehovah with you, O Judah and Jerusalem; fear not, nor be dismayed: to-morrow go out against them: for Jehovah is with you.
• Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant.
• Exod 14:13 : 13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work for you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
• Exod 18:15 : 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
• Ezek 2:7 : 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
• Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
• John 7:17 : 17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
• John 17:8 : 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
• Acts 20:27 : 27 For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.
• 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;
• Heb 3:5-6 : 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.