Deuteronomy 6:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י אֵ֥ל קַנָּ֛א יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בְּקִרְבֶּ֑ךָ פֶּן־יֶ֠חֱרֶה אַף־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ בָּ֔ךְ וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔ מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה

Transliteration

For ʾēl qannāʾ YHWH ʾĕlōhêka in-bĕqirbeka lest-yeḥĕreh anger-of-ʾap-YHWH ʾĕlōhêka against-you and-wĕhišmîdĕkā from-upon pĕnê the-hāʾădāmāh

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God
*qannāʾ*: masculine singular adjective - jealous
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾĕlōhêka*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
*bĕ-qirbeka*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - in your midst
*pen*: conjunction - lest
*yeḥĕreh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - be kindled/burn
*ʾap*: masculine singular noun, construct - anger of
*bāk*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - against you
*wĕ-hišmîdĕkā*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and he will destroy you
*mē-ʿal*: preposition + preposition - from upon
*pĕnê*: masculine plural noun, construct - face/surface of
*hā-ʾădāmāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the ground/earth/land

Word Meanings

*ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
*qannāʾ*: jealous/zealous
*qirbeka*: your midst/among you/within you
*yeḥĕreh*: be kindled/burn/become hot
*ʾap*: anger/nose/wrath
*hišmîdĕkā*: destroy you/eliminate you/exterminate you
*pĕnê*: face/surface/presence
*ʾădāmāh*: ground/earth/land

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Referenced Verses

Deut 4:24 : 24 For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
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 7:4 : 4 For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
Deut 11:17 : 17 and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.
1 Kgs 13:34 : 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Ps 90:7 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
Amos 9:8 : 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
Exod 32:12 : 12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Num 32:10-15 : 10 And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying, 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah. 13 And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed. 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. 15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.
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;
Gen 7:4 : 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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