Deuteronomy 22:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־תִזְרַ֥ע כַּרְמְךָ֖ כִּלְאָ֑יִם פֶּן־תִּקְדַּ֗שׁ הַֽמְלֵאָ֤ה הַזֶּ֙רַע֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּזְרָ֔ע וּתְבוּאַ֖ת הַכָּֽרֶם׃ ס

Transliteration

Not-tizraʿ karměkā kilʾāyim lest-tiqdaš the-mělēʾāh the-zeraʿ which tizrāʿ and-těbûʾat the-kārem.

Grammar Details

*tizraʿ*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you sow
*karměkā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your vineyard
*kilʾāyim*: noun masculine dual - two kinds/diverse kinds
*tiqdaš*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - becomes holy/is forfeited
*mělēʾāh*: noun feminine singular - fullness/produce
*zeraʿ*: noun masculine singular - seed
*tizrāʿ*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you sow
*těbûʾat*: noun feminine singular construct - yield/produce
*kārem*: noun masculine singular - vineyard

Word Meanings

*kilʾāyim*: two kinds/diverse kinds/mixed species
*tiqdaš*: becomes holy/is forfeited/is consecrated (and therefore unusable)
*mělēʾāh*: fullness/entire yield/produce

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Referenced Verses

Lev 19:19 : 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.
Matt 6:24 : 24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matt 9:16 : 16 And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, {G3779} your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
Jas 1:6-8 : 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
Jas 3:10 : 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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