Numbers 14:37

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּמֻ֙תוּ֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים מוֹצִאֵ֥י דִבַּת־הָאָ֖רֶץ רָעָ֑ה בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

And-yāmutû the-ʾănāšîm môṣîʾē dibbat-the-ʾāreṣ rāʿāh in-the-maggēpāh before YHWH

Grammar Details

*yāmutû*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person plural - they died
*ʾănāšîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - men
*môṣîʾē*: hiphil participle construct, masculine plural - those bringing out
*dibbat*: feminine singular construct - evil report/slander of
*ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - land/earth
*rāʿāh*: feminine singular adjective - evil/bad
*maggēpāh*: feminine singular noun with definite article - plague/pestilence
*YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton

Word Meanings

*yāmutû*: died/perished
*ʾănāšîm*: men/people/individuals
*môṣîʾē*: bringers of/those who spread
*dibbat*: evil report/slander/defamation
*ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/country/ground
*rāʿāh*: evil/bad/malicious
*maggēpāh*: plague/pestilence/strike
*YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah - divine name

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them {G2532} murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
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 16:49 : 49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
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.
Num 14:12 : 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Num 25:9 : 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Jer 28:16-17 : 16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
Jer 29:32 : 32 therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken rebellion against Jehovah.

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