Deuteronomy 5:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י מִ֣י כָל־בָּשָׂ֡ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁמַ֣ע קוֹל֩ אֱלֹהִ֨ים חַיִּ֜ים מְדַבֵּ֧ר מִתּוֹךְ־הָאֵ֛שׁ כָּמֹ֖נוּ וַיֶּֽחִי

Transliteration

Kî who all-bāśār who šāmaʿ qôl ʾĕlōhîm ḥayyîm mədabbēr from-midst-of-the-ʾēš like-us and-wayyeḥî

Grammar Details

*Kî*: conjunction - for/because
*bāśār*: common noun, masculine singular - flesh
*šāmaʿ*: Qal perfect 3ms - heard
*qôl*: common noun, masculine singular construct - voice of
*ʾĕlōhîm*: common noun, masculine plural - God
*ḥayyîm*: adjective masculine plural - living
*mədabbēr*: Piel participle masculine singular - speaking
*ʾēš*: common noun, feminine singular - fire
*wayyeḥî*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3ms - and lived

Word Meanings

*bāśār*: flesh/body/mankind
*šāmaʿ*: heard/listened to/heeded
*ḥayyîm*: living/alive
*mədabbēr*: speaking/talking/declaring
*wayyeḥî*: and lived/and survived/and remained alive

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Referenced Verses

Deut 4:33 : 33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Rom 3:20 : 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
Gen 6:12 : 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Josh 3:10 : 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
Ps 42:2 : 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
Isa 40:6 : 6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
Jer 10:10 : 10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, And his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
Matt 26:63 : 63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

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