Numbers 16:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֡ף לֹ֣א אֶל־אֶרֶץ֩ זָבַ֨ת חָלָ֤ב וּדְבַשׁ֙ הֲבִ֣יאֹתָ֔נוּ וַתִּ֨תֶּן־לָ֔נוּ נַחֲלַ֖ת שָׂדֶ֣ה וָכָ֑רֶם הַעֵינֵ֞י הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים הָהֵ֛ם תְּנַקֵּ֖ר לֹ֥א נַעֲלֶֽה׃

Transliteration

Indeed not to-land zābat ḥālāb and-dəbaš hăbîʾōtānû, and-wattiten-to-us naḥălat śādeh and-wākārem. The-haʿênê the-men the-those tənaqqēr? Not naʿăleh

Grammar Details

*zābat*: Qal participle, feminine singular construct - flowing with
*ḥālāb*: noun, masculine singular - milk
*dəbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
*hăbîʾōtānû*: Hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine singular + 1st common plural suffix - you have brought us
*wattiten*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you gave
*naḥălat*: noun, feminine singular construct - inheritance of
*śādeh*: noun, masculine singular - field
*wākārem*: waw-conjunctive + noun, masculine singular - and vineyard
*haʿênê*: definite article + noun, feminine dual construct - the eyes of
*tənaqqēr*: Piel imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will gouge out
*naʿăleh*: Qal imperfect, 1st common plural - we will go up

Word Meanings

*zābat ḥālāb ûdəbaš*: flowing with milk and honey
*naḥălat śādeh wākārem*: inheritance of field and vineyard
*tənaqqēr*: gouge out/put out/blind
*haʿênê hāʾănāšîm hāhēm tənaqqēr*: will you put out the eyes of these men?

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Referenced Verses

Lev 20:24 : 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.
Num 20:5 : 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Num 36:8-9 : 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance. 10 Even as Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
Judg 16:21 : 21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the {H631} prison-house.
1 Sam 11:2 : 2 And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
Exod 3:8 : 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exod 3:17 : 17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exod 22:5 : 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
Exod 23:11 : 11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

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