Numbers 21:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּדַּ֨ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל נֶ֛דֶר לַֽיהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אִם־נָתֹ֨ן תִּתֵּ֜ן אֶת־הָעָ֤ם הַזֶּה֙ בְּיָדִ֔י וְהֽ͏ַחֲרַמְתִּ֖י אֶת־עָרֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wə-yiddar yiśrā'ēl neder to-YHWH and wə-yō'mar if-nātōn tittēn 'et-the 'ām the-zeh in-yādî and wə-haḥăramtî 'et-'ārêhem.

Grammar Details

*wə-yiddar*: conjunctive waw + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he vowed
*yiśrā'ēl*: proper noun - Israel
*neder*: noun, masculine singular - vow/pledge
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*wə-yō'mar*: conjunctive waw + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*nātōn tittēn*: infinitive absolute + qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - surely give/indeed give (emphatic)
*'et*: direct object marker
*'ām*: definite noun, masculine singular - the people
*zeh*: demonstrative adjective - this
*yādî*: noun + 1st person singular suffix - my hand
*wə-haḥăramtî*: conjunctive waw + hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will utterly destroy
*'ārêhem*: noun feminine plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their cities

Word Meanings

*neder*: vow/pledge/promise
*nātōn tittēn*: surely give/indeed give/certainly deliver
*haḥăramtî*: utterly destroy/devote to destruction/dedicate to destruction
*yādî*: my hand/my power/my control

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Referenced Verses

Gen 28:20 : 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Judg 11:30 : 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,
1 Sam 1:11 : 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy handmaid a man-child, {H2233} then I will give him unto Jehovah all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
2 Sam 15:7-8 : 7 And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto Jehovah, in Hebron. 8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.
Ps 56:12-13 : 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
Ps 116:18 : 18 I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the presence of all his people,
Ps 132:2 : 2 How he sware unto Jehovah, And vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob:
1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
Lev 27:28-29 : 28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto Jehovah of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto Jehovah. 29 No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
Deut 13:15 : 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it and the cattle there, with the edge of the sword.
Josh 6:17 : 17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Josh 6:26 : 26 And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: with the loss of his first-born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

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