Deuteronomy 33:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְלֵוִ֣י אָמַ֔ר תֻּמֶּ֥יךָ וְאוּרֶ֖יךָ לְאִ֣ישׁ חֲסִידֶ֑ךָ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִסִּיתוֹ֙ בְּמַסָּ֔ה תְּרִיבֵ֖הוּ עַל־מֵ֥י מְרִיבָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-for-Lēwî ʾāmar tummêkā and-ʾûrêkā to-ʾîš ḥăsîdekā whom nissîtô in-Massāh tərîbēhû at-mê Mərîbāh

Grammar Details

• *û-lə-Lēwî*: conjunction + preposition + proper noun - and for/to Levi
• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he said
• *tummêkā*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your Thummim
• *wə-ʾûrêkā*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and your Urim
• *lə-ʾîš*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to/for man of
• *ḥăsîdekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your faithful one
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - whom
• *nissîtô*: piel perfect, 2nd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - you tested him
• *bə-Massāh*: preposition + proper noun - at Massah
• *tərîbēhû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - you contended with him
• *ʿal-mê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - at waters of
• *Mərîbāh*: proper noun - Meribah

Word Meanings

• *tummêkā*: your Thummim (sacred lot for determining God's will)
• *ʾûrêkā*: your Urim (sacred lot for determining God's will)
• *ḥăsîd*: faithful one/godly one/pious one
• *nissâ*: test/try/prove
• *rîb*: contend/strive/dispute

Referenced Verses

• Exod 17:7 : 7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?
• Exod 28:30 : 30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before Jehovah: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before Jehovah continually.
• Num 20:13 : 13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
• Lev 8:8 : 8 And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.
• Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [And] Aaron the saint of Jehovah.
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
• Lev 21:7 : 7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
• Num 16:5 : 5 and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him.
• Exod 28:36 : 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.
• Num 27:21 : 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
• Deut 8:2-3 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
• Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
• 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
• 2 Chr 23:6 : 6 But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah.
• Ezra 2:63 : 63 And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
• Ezra 8:28 : 28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto Jehovah, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers.
• Neh 7:65 : 65 And the governor said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
• Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
• Ps 81:7 : 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. {H5542}