Leviticus 26:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִ֨ם־בְּאֵ֔לֶּה לֹ֥א תִוָּסְר֖וּ לִ֑י וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֥ם עִמִּ֖י קֶֽרִי׃

Transliteration

And if wə-ʾim-bə-ʾēlleh lōʾ tiwwāsərû to me lî and wa-hălaḵtem with me ʿimmî qerî.

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾim*: conjunction + conditional particle - and if
• *bə-ʾēlleh*: preposition + demonstrative pronoun plural - by/with these
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *tiwwāsərû*: Niphal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will be corrected/instructed
• *lî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to me
• *wa-hălaḵtem*: conjunction + Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you will walk
• *ʿimmî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - with me
• *qerî*: masculine singular noun - contrary/hostile encounter

Word Meanings

• *tiwwāsərû*: be corrected/disciplined/chastened
• *hălaḵtem*: walk/go/behave
• *qerî*: hostility/contrariness/opposition

Referenced Verses

• Jer 5:3 : 3 O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Amos 4:6-9 : 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
• Ezek 24:13-14 : 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest. 14 I, Jehovah, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Lev 26:21 : 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
• Isa 1:16-20 : 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.