Leviticus 26:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֨י בָכֶ֜ם אֶת־חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְשִׁכְּלָ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִכְרִ֙יתָה֙ אֶת־בְּהֶמְתְּכֶ֔ם וְהִמְעִ֖יטָה אֶתְכֶ֑ם וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּ דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wə-hišlaḥtî among you ḇāḵem ʾet-ḥayyaṯ ha-śāḏeh and wə-šikkəlâ you ʾeṯḵem and wə-hiḵrîṯâ ʾet-bəhemtəḵem and wə-himʿîṭâ you ʾeṯḵem and wə-nāšammû darḵêḵem.

Grammar Details

*wə-hišlaḥtî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will send
*ḇāḵem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - among you
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ḥayyaṯ*: feminine singular construct - animal/beast of
*ha-śāḏeh*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the field
*wə-šikkəlâ*: conjunction + Piel perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will bereave
*ʾeṯḵem*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
*wə-hiḵrîṯâ*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will cut off
*bəhemtəḵem*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your cattle
*wə-himʿîṭâ*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will diminish
*wə-nāšammû*: conjunction + Niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - and they will be desolate
*darḵêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your ways/roads

Word Meanings

*hišlaḥtî*: send/let loose/release
*ḥayyaṯ*: beast/animal/living creature
*śāḏeh*: field/open country
*šikkəlâ*: bereave/make childless/destroy
*hiḵrîṯâ*: cut off/destroy/eliminate
*bəhemtəḵem*: cattle/livestock/beasts
*himʿîṭâ*: diminish/reduce/make few
*nāšammû*: be desolate/deserted/uninhabited
*darḵêḵem*: ways/roads/paths

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:24 : 24 [ They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Judg 5:6 : 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways.
Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;
Lev 26:6 : 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Zech 7:14 : 14 but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: [the enemy] hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth not man.
Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Ezek 5:17 : 17 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
Jer 15:3 : 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
2 Chr 15:5 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
Isa 24:6 : 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.
Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Ezek 33:28 : 28 And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.
Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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