Numbers 20:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ

Transliteration

And-lāmâ hăbēʾtem ʾet-qəhal yəhwâ to-the-midbār the-zeh lāmût there ʾănaḥnû and-bəʿîrēnû

Grammar Details

*lāmâ*: interrogative - why
*hăbēʾtem*: hiphil perfect 2nd masculine plural - you have brought
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*qəhal*: construct state, masculine singular - assembly of
*yəhwâ*: proper noun - the LORD
*midbār*: masculine singular with definite article - the wilderness
*zeh*: demonstrative adjective - this
*lāmût*: qal infinitive construct with lamed - to die
*ʾănaḥnû*: 1st person plural pronoun - we
*bəʿîrēnû*: feminine plural with 1st plural suffix - our cattle

Word Meanings

*lāmâ*: why
*hăbēʾtem*: brought/led
*qəhal*: assembly/congregation
*midbār*: wilderness/desert
*bəʿîrēnû*: our cattle/livestock

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Referenced Verses

Exod 17:3 : 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Num 11:5 : 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
Num 16:13-14 : 13 is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? 14 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.
Num 16:41 : 41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.
Ps 106:21 : 21 They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent [to be] both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:39-40 : 39 to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt, 40 saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Exod 5:21 : 21 and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exod 14:11-12 : 11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Exod 16:3 : 3 and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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Num 20:5
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5And 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.
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1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
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1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:
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Num 16:41
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Deut 5:25
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Exod 17:7
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