Numbers 14:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

wə-ṭappəkem ʾăšer ʾămartem lābaz yihyeh wəhēbêʾtî ʾōtām wəyādəʿû ʾet-hāʾāreṣ ʾăšer məʾastem bāh

Grammar Details

*wə-ṭappəkem*: conjunction + masculine singular collective noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - and your little ones
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*ʾămartem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *ʾmr* - you said
*lābaz*: preposition + masculine singular noun - for plunder
*yihyeh*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, Qal form of *hyh* - he/it will be
*wəhēbêʾtî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular, Hiphil form of *bwʾ* - and I will bring
*ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
*wəyādəʿû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd plural, Qal form of *ydʿ* - and they will know
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
*məʾastem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *mʾs* - you rejected
*bāh*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - in it

Word Meanings

*ṭappəkem*: your little ones/your children/your small children
*lābaz yihyeh*: would become plunder/will be prey/will be victims
*wəhēbêʾtî*: I will bring/I shall lead in
*wəyādəʿû*: and they will know/they shall experience/they will be acquainted with
*məʾastem bāh*: you have rejected/despised/refused

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Referenced Verses

Ps 106:24 : 24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,
Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Prov 1:25 : 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
Prov 1:30 : 30 They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
Matt 22:5 : 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;
Acts 13:41 : 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.
Heb 12:16-17 : 16 lest [there] [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. 17 For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.
Gen 25:34 : 34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: so Esau despised his birthright.
Num 14:3 : 3 And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Num 26:6 : 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 1:34-40
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34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
36save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.
37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
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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.
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29your 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,
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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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