Numbers 11:33

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַבָּשָׂ֗ר עוֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙ בֵּ֣ין שִׁנֵּיהֶ֔ם טֶ֖רֶם יִכָּרֵ֑ת וְאַ֤ף יְהוָה֙ חָרָ֣ה בָעָ֔ם וַיַּ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ בָּעָ֔ם מַכָּ֖ה רַבָּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

The bāśār ʿôdennû between šinnêhem ṭerem yikkārēt and ʾap Yhwh ḥārāh in the ʿām and wayyak Yhwh in the ʿām makkāh rabbāh mĕʾōd.

Grammar Details

*bāśār*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - flesh/meat
*ʿôdennû*: adverb with 3rd masculine singular suffix - still/yet it
*šinnêhem*: noun, feminine, plural construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their teeth
*ṭerem*: adverb - not yet/before
*yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - be cut off/consumed
*ʾap*: noun, masculine, singular construct - anger/nose of
*Yhwh*: proper name - LORD
*ḥārāh*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - burned/was kindled
*ʿām*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - people
*wayyak*: hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - struck/smote
*makkāh*: noun, feminine, singular - blow/stroke/plague
*rabbāh*: adjective, feminine, singular - great/many
*mĕʾōd*: adverb - very/exceedingly

Word Meanings

*ṭerem*: not yet/before/ere
*yikkārēt*: was cut off/consumed/chewed
*ʾap*: nose/anger/wrath

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 78:30-31 : 30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, 31 When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
Ps 106:14-15 : 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.
Num 16:49 : 49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
Num 25:9 : 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Deut 28:27 : 27 Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

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Num 11:1
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1And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
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30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
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Num 11:34
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5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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Ps 106:29
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Num 11:20-22
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20but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
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Num 11:31-32
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31And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.
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Num 31:16
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Deut 9:22
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Num 11:18
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Deut 2:15
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Num 11:3-4
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3And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.
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13And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed.
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Deut 28:21
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Ps 106:40
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