Deuteronomy 32:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[Without] [shall the sword] [bereave, And in the chambers] [terror;] [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִחוּץ֙ תְּשַׁכֶּל־חֶ֔רֶב וּמֵחֲדָרִ֖ים אֵימָ֑ה גַּם־בָּחוּר֙ גַּם־בְּתוּלָ֔ה יוֹנֵ֖ק עִם־אִ֥ישׁ שֵׂיבָֽה׃

Transliteration

From-outside təšakkel-ḥereḇ and-from-chambers ʾêmāh; also-bāḥûr also-bəṯûlāh, yônêq with-ʾîš śêḇāh.

Grammar Details

*miḥûṣ*: preposition with noun - from outside
*təšakkel*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - will bereave
*ḥereḇ*: noun, feminine, singular - sword
*û*: conjunction - and
*mêḥăḏārîm*: preposition with noun, masculine, plural - from chambers/rooms
*ʾêmāh*: noun, feminine, singular - terror/horror/dread
*gam*: particle - also/even
*bāḥûr*: noun, masculine, singular - young man/chosen one
*bəṯûlāh*: noun, feminine, singular - virgin/maiden
*yônêq*: noun, masculine, singular - suckling/infant
*ʿim*: preposition - with
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular construct - man of
*śêḇāh*: noun, feminine, singular - gray hair/old age

Word Meanings

*təšakkel*: will bereave/rob/make childless
*ḥereḇ*: sword/knife/destruction
*ʾêmāh*: terror/horror/dread
*bāḥûr*: young man/chosen one/youth
*bəṯûlāh*: virgin/maiden/unmarried woman
*yônêq*: suckling/nursing infant
*ʾîš*: man/person
*śêḇāh*: gray hair/old age/hoary head

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 7:15 : 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword: and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Lam 1:20 : 20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lam 2:19-22 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied. 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lam 4:4 : 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we] [were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.
Lev 26:36-37 : 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
Isa 30:16 : 16 but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
Jer 9:21 : 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

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