Exodus 22:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־כֶּ֣סֶף ׀ תַּלְוֶ֣ה אֶת־עַמִּ֗י אֶת־הֶֽעָנִי֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹא־תִהְיֶ֥ה ל֖וֹ כְּנֹשֶׁ֑ה לֹֽא־תְשִׂימ֥וּן עָלָ֖יו נֶֽשֶׁךְ׃

Transliteration

If kesef talweh ʾet-my ʿammî, ʾet-the ʿānî with you, not tihyeh to him like nōšeh; not tĕśîmûn on him nešek.

Grammar Details

• *kesef*: masculine singular noun, 'silver/money'
• *talweh*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you lend'
• *ʿammî*: masculine singular noun with 1st common singular suffix, 'my people'
• *ʿānî*: definite masculine singular adjective, 'poor'
• *tihyeh*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you shall be'
• *nōšeh*: qal participle, masculine singular, 'creditor/one who lends'
• *tĕśîmûn*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, 'you shall put'
• *nešek*: masculine singular noun, 'interest/usury'

Word Meanings

• *talweh*: lend/loan
• *nōšeh*: creditor/money-lender/usurer
• *nešek*: interest/usury

Referenced Verses

• Ps 109:9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
• Ps 69:24 : 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
• Lam 5:3 : 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
• Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
• Luke 6:38 : 38 give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.
• Rom 2:5-9 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who will render to every man according to his works: 7 to them that by patience in {G18} well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
• Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Ps 76:7 : 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared; And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
• Ps 78:63-64 : 63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
• Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
• Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
• Job 27:13-15 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.
• Job 31:23 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.