Exodus 23:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֛ה מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה וַעֲקָרָ֖ה בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר יָמֶ֖יךָ אֲמַלֵּֽא׃

Transliteration

Not tihyeh mĕšakkēlāh and-ʿăqārāh in-ʾarṣĕkā ʾet-mispar yāmeykā ʾămallēʾ

Grammar Details

*tihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - will be
*mĕšakkēlāh*: piel participle feminine singular - miscarrying/bereaving
*ʿăqārāh*: adjective feminine singular - barren/sterile
*ʾarṣĕkā*: noun feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your land
*mispar*: noun masculine singular construct - number of
*yāmeykā*: noun masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your days
*ʾămallēʾ*: piel imperfect 1st person common singular - I will fulfill/complete

Word Meanings

*mĕšakkēlāh*: miscarrying/bereaving/causing loss of children
*ʿăqārāh*: barren/sterile/unable to bear
*ʾămallēʾ*: I will fulfill/complete/fill up/satisfy

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Referenced Verses

Deut 7:14 : 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Job 5:26 : 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
Ps 90:10 : 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Ps 144:13 : 13 [ When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
Isa 65:20 : 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Mal 3:10-11 : 10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it]. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
1 Chr 23:1 : 1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
Gen 25:8 : 8 And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years], and was gathered to his people.
Gen 35:29 : 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Job 21:10 : 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job 42:17 : 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

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