Deuteronomy 32:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They have dealt corruptly with him, [they] [are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

Transliteration

šiḥēṯ lô lōʾ bānāyw mûmām dôr ʿiqqēš ûp̄əṯaltōl

Grammar Details

*šiḥēṯ*: Piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - acted corruptly
*lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him/against him
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*bānāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his sons/children
*mûmām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person plural suffix - their blemish/defect
*dôr*: masculine singular noun - generation
*ʿiqqēš*: masculine singular adjective - perverse/crooked
*ûp̄əṯaltōl*: conjunction + masculine singular adjective - and twisted/tortuous

Word Meanings

*šiḥēṯ*: acted corruptly/destroyed/ruined
*lô*: to him/against him/with respect to him
*bānāyw*: his sons/his children
*mûmām*: their blemish/their defect/their spot
*dôr*: generation/age/period
*ʿiqqēš*: perverse/crooked/twisted
*pəṯaltōl*: twisted/tortuous/crooked

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward.
Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.
Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
Luke 9:41 : 41 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and bear with you? bring hither thy son.
John 8:41 : 41 Ye do the works of your father. {G3767} They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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.
Judg 2:19 : 19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed.
Gen 6:12 : 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Exod 32:7 : 7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Deut 4:16 : 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deut 9:24 : 24 Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

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