Psalms 106:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַ֭יִּצָּ֣מְדוּ לְבַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר וַ֝יֹּאכְל֗וּ זִבְחֵ֥י מֵתִֽים׃

Transliteration

wayyiṣṣāmədū to-Ba'al Pə'ōr wayyō'kəlū zibḥê mētîm

Grammar Details

• *wayyiṣṣāmədū*: niphal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person plural - and they joined themselves
• *Ba'al*: proper noun - Baal
• *Pə'ōr*: proper noun - Peor
• *wayyō'kəlū*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person plural - and they ate
• *zibḥê*: noun, masculine, plural construct - sacrifices of
• *mētîm*: adjective, masculine, plural - dead ones

Word Meanings

• *wayyiṣṣāmədū*: and they joined themselves/attached themselves/yoked themselves
• *zibḥê*: sacrifices/offerings
• *mētîm*: dead ones/lifeless beings/corpses

Referenced Verses

• Hos 9:10 : 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
• Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
• Deut 32:17 : 17 They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
• Josh 22:17 : 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,
• Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not; 7 They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
• Jer 10:8-9 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. 9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men. 10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
• 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or {G3754} that an idol is anything? 20 But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
• Num 25:1-3 : 1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab: 2 for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
• Num 25:5 : 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
• Num 31:16 : 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.