Numbers 14:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

After 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־תַּרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ֮ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יוֹם֒ י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֞ה י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֗ה תִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־עֲוֺנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־תְּנוּאָתִֽי׃

Transliteration

bəmispar hayyāmîm ʾăšer-tartem ʾet-hāʾāreṣ ʾarbāʿîm yôm yôm laššānāh yôm laššānāh tiśʾû ʾet-ʿăwōnōtêkem ʾarbāʿîm šānāh wîdaʿtem ʾet-tənûʾātî

Grammar Details

*bəmispar*: preposition + masculine singular construct - by number of
*hayyāmîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the days
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*tartem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *twr* - you spied out
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
*ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
*yôm*: masculine singular noun - day
*yôm laššānāh*: masculine singular noun + preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - day for the year
*tiśʾû*: imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *nśʾ* - you will bear
*ʿăwōnōtêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your iniquities
*šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
*wîdaʿtem*: conjunction + perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *ydʿ* - and you will know
*tənûʾātî*: feminine singular noun + 1st singular suffix - my opposition/alienation

Word Meanings

*bəmispar hayyāmîm*: according to the number of days/by the count of days
*tartem*: you spied out/you explored/you searched
*yôm laššānāh yôm laššānāh*: a day for a year, a day for a year (repetition for emphasis)
*tiśʾû ʾet-ʿăwōnōtêkem*: you shall bear your iniquities/you will carry your punishments
*ʿăwōnōtêkem*: your iniquities/your guilt/your punishment
*tənûʾātî*: my alienation/my opposition/my hostility/my rejection

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Referenced Verses

Num 13:25 : 25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
Ezek 4:6 : 6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Zech 11:10 : 10 And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Ezek 14:10 : 10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh [unto him];
Lev 20:19 : 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he hath made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Num 18:23 : 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Deut 31:16-17 : 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Kgs 8:56 : 56 Blessed be Jehovah, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Ps 38:4 : 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Ps 77:8 : 8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?
Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
Ps 105:42 : 42 For he remembered his holy word, [And] Abraham his servant.
Jer 18:9-9 : 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Lam 3:31-33 : 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever. 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 14:27-33
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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:
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,
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.
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5For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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