Numbers 14:33

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם יִהְי֨וּ רֹעִ֤ים בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְנָשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם עַד־תֹּ֥ם פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Transliteration

û-bənêkem yihyû rōʿîm bammidbār ʾarbāʿîm šānāh wənāśəʾû ʾet-zənûtêkem ʿad-tōm pigrêkem bammidbār

Grammar Details

• *û-bənêkem*: conjunction + masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - and your sons
• *yihyû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, Qal form of *hyh* - they will be
• *rōʿîm*: masculine plural participle, Qal form of *rʿh* - shepherds/wandering
• *bammidbār*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the wilderness
• *ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
• *šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
• *wənāśəʾû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd plural, Qal form of *nśʾ* - and they will bear
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *zənûtêkem*: feminine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your harlotries/unfaithfulness
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *tōm*: masculine singular construct - completion of
• *pigrêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your corpses

Word Meanings

• *rōʿîm*: shepherds/wandering/moving about as nomads
• *wənāśəʾû ʾet-zənûtêkem*: and shall bear your unfaithfulness/will carry your infidelities/will suffer for your prostitutions
• *zənûtêkem*: your harlotries/your unfaithfulness/your infidelities
• *ʿad-tōm pigrêkem*: until the completion of your corpses/until your carcasses are consumed/until your dead bodies perish

Referenced Verses

• Num 32:13 : 13 And 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.
• Deut 2:14 : 14 And 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.
• Ps 107:40 : 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
• Ezek 23:35 : 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
• Ezek 23:45-49 : 45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
• Jer 3:1-2 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
• Josh 14:10 : 10 And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
• Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
• Num 33:38 : 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
• Deut 1:3 : 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;
• Num 5:31 : 31 And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.