Deuteronomy 32:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ṣûr yəlādəḵā tešî wattiškaḥ ʾēl məḥōleleḵā

Grammar Details

*ṣûr*: masculine singular noun - rock
*yəlādəḵā*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - who begot you
*tešî*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you forgot/neglected
*wattiškaḥ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - and you forgot
*ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God
*məḥōleleḵā*: Polel participle masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - who gave you birth

Word Meanings

*ṣûr yəlādəḵā*: rock who begot you/rock who fathered you
*tešî*: you forgot/you neglected/you were unmindful
*wattiškaḥ*: and you forgot/and you ignored/and you were unmindful
*ʾēl məḥōleleḵā*: God who gave you birth/God who brought you forth/God who formed you

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Referenced Verses

Isa 17:10 : 10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.
Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Ps 106:21 : 21 They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
Ps 44:20-22 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Deut 6:12 : 12 then beware lest thou forget Jehovah, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deut 8:11 : 11 Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deut 8:14 : 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
Deut 8:19 : 19 And it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Jer 3:21 : 21 A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Isa 22:10-11 : 10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall; 11 ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.

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