Numbers 14:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר הַ֠זֶּה יִפְּל֨וּ פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם וְכָל־פְּקֻדֵיכֶם֙ לְכָל־מִסְפַּרְכֶ֔ם מִבֶּ֛ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֲלִֽינֹתֶ֖ם עָלָֽי׃

Transliteration

bammidbār hazzeh yippəlû pigrêkem wə-kol-pəqudêkem lə-kol-misparkem mibben ʿeśrîm šānāh wāmāʿlāh ʾăšer hălînōtem ʿālāy

Grammar Details

*bammidbār*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the wilderness
*hazzeh*: definite article + masculine singular demonstrative pronoun - this
*yippəlû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, Qal form of *npl* - they will fall
*pigrêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your corpses
*wə-kol*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and all of
*pəqudêkem*: masculine plural passive participle + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your numbered ones
*lə-kol*: preposition + masculine singular construct - according to all of
*misparkem*: masculine singular noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your count/number
*mibben*: preposition + masculine singular construct - from son of
*ʿeśrîm*: cardinal number - twenty
*šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
*wāmāʿlāh*: conjunction + adverb - and upward
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/that
*hălînōtem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Hiphil form of *lwn* - you have murmured
*ʿālāy*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me

Word Meanings

*yippəlû pigrêkem*: your carcasses shall fall/your dead bodies will fall/your corpses will drop
*pəqudêkem*: your numbered ones/those who were counted/those registered
*lə-kol-misparkem*: according to your whole number/by your full count
*mibben ʿeśrîm šānāh wāmāʿlāh*: from twenty years old and upward/from the age of twenty and above
*hălînōtem ʿālāy*: you have murmured against me/you have complained against me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Num 1:45 : 45 So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Heb 3:17 : 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Num 26:64 : 64 But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
1 Cor 10:5 : 5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Num 14:32-33 : 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Num 14:30-37
8 verses
87%
30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
34After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
35I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
37even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
Num 32:10-11
2 verses
78%
10And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying,
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Heb 3:17
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17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Deut 1:26-27
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77%
26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:
27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Num 14:26-28
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26And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Num 26:65
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65For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:22-23
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22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
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Exod 16:2
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Deut 2:14
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14And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.
Num 14:16
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16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Num 27:14
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14because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
Num 14:39
74%
39And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Deut 1:34-35
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34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
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Num 14:2
74%
2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Deut 1:37
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37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
Deut 32:51
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51because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Num 16:41
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41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.
Num 32:13
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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.
Num 26:4
73%
4[ Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Deut 9:22-23
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22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Josh 5:6
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6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Heb 3:9
72%
9Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years.
Num 26:2
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2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.
Num 14:11
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11And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
Deut 29:5
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Num 1:3
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3from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.
Ps 106:25
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25But murmured in their tents, And hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
Exod 16:7-8
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7and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8And Moses said, [This shall be], when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.
Num 32:15
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15For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.
Deut 1:40
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40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Num 11:20
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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?
Num 1:45
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45So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
1 Cor 10:10
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10Neither murmur ye, as some of them {G2532} murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
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