Deuteronomy 8:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַמּוֹלִ֨יכֲךָ֜ בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר ׀ הַגָּדֹ֣ל וְהַנּוֹרָ֗א נָחָ֤שׁ ׀ שָׂרָף֙ וְעַקְרָ֔ב וְצִמָּא֖וֹן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֵֽין־מָ֑יִם הַמּוֹצִ֤יא לְךָ֙ מַ֔יִם מִצּ֖וּר הֽ͏ַחַלָּמִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

The-môlîkăkā in-the-midbār the-gādōl and-the-nôrāʾ nāḥāš śārāp and-ʿaqrāb and-tsimmāʾôn which ʾên-māyim the-môtsîʾ for-you māyim from-tsûr the-ḥallāmîš.

Grammar Details

*môlîkăkā*: Hiphil participle with 2nd person masculine singular suffix with definite article - the one leading you
*midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article with prefixed preposition - in the wilderness
*gādōl*: masculine singular adjective with definite article - the great
*nôrāʾ*: Niphal participle masculine singular with definite article - the terrible
*nāḥāš*: masculine singular noun - serpent
*śārāp*: masculine singular noun - fiery (serpent)
*ʿaqrāb*: masculine singular noun - scorpion
*tsimmāʾôn*: masculine singular noun - thirsty ground
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
*māyim*: masculine plural noun - water
*môtsîʾ*: Hiphil participle with definite article - the one bringing out
*tsûr*: masculine singular noun - rock
*ḥallāmîš*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the flint

Word Meanings

*môlîkăkā*: leading you/guiding you/causing you to walk
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*gādōl*: great/large/mighty
*nôrāʾ*: terrible/dreadful/awesome
*nāḥāš*: serpent/snake
*śārāp*: fiery (serpent)/venomous serpent
*ʿaqrāb*: scorpion
*tsimmāʾôn*: thirsty ground/drought/parched land
*tsûr*: rock/cliff/boulder
*ḥallāmîš*: flint/hard rock

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Referenced Verses

Num 20:11 : 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
Num 21:6 : 6 And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Ps 114:8 : 8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
Deut 1:19 : 19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Hos 13:5 : 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
Exod 17:5-6 : 5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Deut 32:13 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;
Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places [like] a river.
Ps 136:16 : 16 To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Isa 35:7 : 7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Isa 63:12-14 : 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not? 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

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