Deuteronomy 32:41

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־שַׁנּוֹתִי֙ בְּרַ֣ק חַרְבִּ֔י וְתֹאחֵ֥ז בְּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט יָדִ֑י אָשִׁ֤יב נָקָם֙ לְצָרָ֔י וְלִמְשַׂנְאַ֖י אֲשַׁלֵּֽם׃

Transliteration

If šannôṯî bəraq ḥarbî, and-tōʾḥēz in-mišpāṭ yāḏî; ʾāšîḇ nāqām to-ṣārāy, and-to-məśanʾay ʾăšallēm.

Grammar Details

• *ʾim*: conjunction - if
• *šannôṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I sharpen/whet
• *bəraq*: noun, masculine, singular construct - lightning/glittering of
• *ḥarbî*: noun, feminine, singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my sword
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *tōʾḥēz*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - takes hold
• *bə*: preposition - in
• *mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine, singular - judgment
• *yāḏî*: noun, feminine, singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my hand
• *ʾāšîḇ*: verb, hifil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will return/render
• *nāqām*: noun, masculine, singular - vengeance
• *lə*: preposition - to
• *ṣārāy*: participle, qal, masculine, plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my adversaries
• *li*: preposition - to
• *məśanʾay*: participle, piel, masculine, plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - those who hate me
• *ʾăšallēm*: verb, piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I will repay

Word Meanings

• *šannôṯî*: I sharpen/whet/polish
• *bəraq*: lightning/glittering/flash
• *ḥarbî*: my sword/my weapon
• *tōʾḥēz*: takes hold/grasps/seizes
• *mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/righteousness
• *yāḏî*: my hand/my power
• *ʾāšîḇ*: I will return/render/pay back
• *nāqām*: vengeance/retribution
• *ṣārāy*: my adversaries/enemies/foes
• *məśanʾay*: those who hate me/my haters
• *ʾăšallēm*: I will repay/requite/recompense

Referenced Verses

• Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
• Ps 7:12 : 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
• Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
• Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
• Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
• Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
• Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;
• Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
• Deut 5:9 : 9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
• Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
• Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree. 11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh. 13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah. 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers. 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
• Ezek 21:20 : 20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
• Zeph 2:12 : 12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
• Mark 1:2 : 2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy {G3598} {G4675} way.
• Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
• 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;