Leviticus 26:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם בְּשַׂ֣ר בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם וּבְשַׂ֥ר בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖ם תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

And wa-ʾăḵaltem bəśar bənêḵem and û-ḇəśar bənōṯêḵem tōʾḵēlû.

Grammar Details

• *wa-ʾăḵaltem*: conjunction + Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you will eat
• *bəśar*: masculine singular construct - flesh of
• *bənêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *û-ḇəśar*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and flesh of
• *bənōṯêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your daughters
• *tōʾḵēlû*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will eat

Word Meanings

• *ʾăḵaltem*: eat/consume/devour
• *bəśar*: flesh/meat/body
• *bənêḵem*: your sons/children (male)
• *bənōṯêḵem*: your daughters/children (female)
• *tōʾḵēlû*: eat/consume/devour

Referenced Verses

• Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.
• Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!
• Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
• Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee. 54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; 55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
• 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
• Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?