Numbers 24:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite [them] through with his arrows.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֚ל מוֹצִיא֣וֹ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם ל֑וֹ יֹאכַ֞ל גּוֹיִ֣ם צָרָ֗יו וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶ֛ם יְגָרֵ֖ם וְחִצָּ֥יו יִמְחָֽץ׃

Transliteration

ʾēl môṣîʾô from miṣrayim, like ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ rəʾēm for him, yōʾḵal gôyim his ṣārāw, and their ʿaṣmōṯêhem yəḡārēm, and his ḥiṣṣāw yimḥāṣ.

Grammar Details

*ʾēl*: noun ms - 'God/deity'
*môṣîʾô*: hiphil participle ms with 3ms suffix - 'bringing him out'
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
*ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ*: noun fp construct - 'strength/horns of'
*rəʾēm*: noun ms - 'wild ox'
*yōʾḵal*: qal imperfect 3ms - 'he will devour'
*gôyim*: noun mp - 'nations'
*ṣārāw*: noun mp with 3ms suffix - 'his adversaries'
*ʿaṣmōṯêhem*: noun fp with 3mp suffix - 'their bones'
*yəḡārēm*: piel imperfect 3ms - 'he will crush/gnaw'
*ḥiṣṣāw*: noun mp with 3ms suffix - 'his arrows'
*yimḥāṣ*: qal imperfect 3ms - 'he will pierce/shatter'

Word Meanings

*ʾēl*: God/deity/Mighty One
*ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ*: strength/horns/swiftness
*rəʾēm*: wild ox/unicorn/buffalo
*yōʾḵal*: will devour/consume/eat
*yəḡārēm*: will crush/gnaw/break
*yimḥāṣ*: will pierce/shatter/strike through

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Referenced Verses

Num 23:22 : 22 God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Num 23:24 : 24 Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.
Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Num 14:9 : 9 Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
Isa 38:13 : 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Jer 50:9 : 9 For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Ps 21:12 : 12 For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Deut 7:1 : 1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

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