Numbers 14:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I, 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲנִ֣י יְהוָה֮ דִּבַּרְתִּי֒ אִם־לֹ֣א ׀ זֹ֣את אֽ͏ֶעֱשֶׂ֗ה לְכָל־הָעֵדָ֤ה הָֽרָעָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את הַנּוֹעָדִ֖ים עָלָ֑י בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּ֛ה יִתַּ֖מּוּ וְשָׁ֥ם יָמֻֽתוּ

Transliteration

I YHWH dibbartī if-not this ʾeʿĕśeh to-all-the-ʿēdāh the-rāʿāh the-this, the-nôʿādîm against-me; in-the-midbār the-this yittammû and-there yāmutû

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
*dibbartī*: perfect, 1st person singular - I have spoken
*ʾeʿĕśeh*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will do
*ʿēdāh*: feminine singular construct - congregation/assembly
*rāʿāh*: feminine singular adjective - evil/wicked
*nôʿādîm*: niphal participle, masculine plural - those who gather/assemble
*midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article - wilderness/desert
*yittammû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they will be consumed/perish
*yāmutû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they will die

Word Meanings

*YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah - divine name
*dibbartī*: spoken/declared/promised
*ʾeʿĕśeh*: do/execute/perform/fulfill
*ʿēdāh*: congregation/assembly/community
*rāʿāh*: evil/wicked/harmful
*nôʿādîm*: assembled against/gathered together against
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*yittammû*: be consumed/perish/come to an end
*yāmutû*: die/perish

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Referenced Verses

Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Num 26:65 : 65 For 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.
1 Cor 10:5 : 5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
Heb 3:19 : 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
Num 14:27-29 : 27 How 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. 28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 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,

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Num 14:26-29
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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:
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