Deuteronomy 28:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָר֥וּר פְּרִֽי־בִטְנְךָ֖ וּפְרִ֣י אַדְמָתֶ֑ךָ שְׁגַ֥ר אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ וְעַשְׁתְּר֥וֹת צֹאנֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ʾārûr pərî-biṭnəkā ûpərî ʾadmātekā šəgar ʾălāpêkā wəʿaštərôt ṣōʾnekā

Grammar Details

• *ʾārûr*: passive participle, masculine singular - cursed
• *pərî*: construct noun, masculine singular - fruit/offspring of
• *biṭnəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your womb/belly
• *ûpərî*: conjunction (wə-) + noun, construct masculine singular - and fruit/offspring of
• *ʾadmātekā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your ground/land
• *šəgar*: construct noun, masculine singular - offspring/increase of
• *ʾălāpêkā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your cattle/oxen
• *wəʿaštərôt*: conjunction (wə-) + noun, feminine plural construct - and young/increase of
• *ṣōʾnekā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your flock/sheep

Word Meanings

• *ʾārûr*: cursed/under a curse
• *pərî*: fruit/offspring/produce
• *biṭnəkā*: your womb/belly/body
• *ʾadmātekā*: your ground/land/soil
• *šəgar*: offspring/increase/young ones
• *ʾălāpêkā*: your cattle/oxen/herds
• *ʿaštərôt*: young ones/increase/newborn (possibly connected to fertility goddess Astarte)
• *ṣōʾnekā*: your flock/sheep/small livestock

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:4 : 4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
• Deut 28:16 : 16 You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.
• Job 18:16-19 : 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. 19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
• Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow. 10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends. 11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work. 12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead. 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory. 14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
• Lam 2:11-12 : 11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
• Lam 2:20 : 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
• Hos 9:11-14 : 11 As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life. 12 Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it. 13 As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death. 14 O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
• Hab 3:17 : 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
• Mal 2:3 : 3 See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
• Luke 23:29-30 : 29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk. 30 And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.
• Lev 26:19-20 : 19 And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass; 20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
• Deut 5:9 : 9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;