Numbers 23:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־מֵרֹ֤אשׁ צֻרִים֙ אֶרְאֶ֔נּוּ וּמִגְּבָע֖וֹת אֲשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ הֶן־עָם֙ לְבָדָ֣ד יִשְׁכֹּ֔ן וּבַגּוֹיִ֖ם לֹ֥א יִתְחַשָּֽׁב׃

Transliteration

kî-mē-rōʾš ṣurîm ʾerʾennû û-mi-gəbāʿôt ʾăšûrennû hen-ʿām lə-bādād yiškōn û-ba-gôyim lōʾ yitḥaššāb

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for
*mē-rōʾš*: preposition + common noun, masculine singular construct - from top of
*ṣurîm*: common noun, masculine plural - rocks
*ʾerʾennû*: qal imperfect, 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - I see him
*û-mi-gəbāʿôt*: waw conjunction + preposition + common noun, feminine plural - and from hills
*ʾăšûrennû*: qal imperfect, 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - I behold him
*hen*: interjection - behold
*ʿām*: common noun, masculine singular - people
*lə-bādād*: preposition + adverb - alone
*yiškōn*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he dwells
*û-ba-gôyim*: waw conjunction + preposition + definite article + common noun, masculine plural - and among the nations
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yitḥaššāb*: hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he reckons himself

Word Meanings

*rōʾš*: top/summit/head
*ṣurîm*: rocks/cliffs
*ʾerʾennû*: I see him/I observe him
*gəbāʿôt*: hills/heights
*ʾăšûrennû*: I behold him/I observe him/I watch him
*bādād*: alone/in isolation/separated
*yiškōn*: dwells/resides/settles
*gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
*yitḥaššāb*: reckons himself/counts himself/considers himself

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Referenced Verses

Exod 33:16 : 16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Deut 33:28 : 28 And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew.
Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
Esth 3:8 : 8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Jer 46:28 : 28 Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.
Rom 15:8-9 : 8 For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore {G5124} will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name. 10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
Eph 2:12-14 : 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,
Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

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