Leviticus 26:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֵבֵאתִ֨י עֲלֵיכֶ֜ם חֶ֗רֶב נֹקֶ֙מֶת֙ נְקַם־בְּרִ֔ית וְנֶאֱסַפְתֶּ֖ם אֶל־עָרֵיכֶ֑ם וְשִׁלַּ֤חְתִּי דֶ֙בֶר֙ בְּת֣וֹכְכֶ֔ם וְנִתַּתֶּ֖ם בְּיַד־אוֹיֵֽב׃

Transliteration

And wə-hēḇēʾṯî upon you ʿălêḵem ḥereḇ nōqemeṯ nəqam-bərîṯ and wə-neʾĕsap̄tem to ʾel-ʿārêḵem and wə-šillaḥtî ḏeḇer in bə-ṯôḵəḵem and wə-nittaṯtem in bə-yaḏ-ʾôyēḇ.

Grammar Details

• *wə-hēḇēʾṯî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will bring
• *ʿălêḵem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - upon you
• *ḥereḇ*: feminine singular noun - sword
• *nōqemeṯ*: Qal participle feminine singular - avenging
• *nəqam*: masculine singular construct - vengeance of
• *bərîṯ*: feminine singular noun - covenant
• *wə-neʾĕsap̄tem*: conjunction + Niphal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you will be gathered
• *ʾel*: preposition - to
• *ʿārêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your cities
• *wə-šillaḥtî*: conjunction + Piel perfect 1st person singular - and I will send
• *ḏeḇer*: masculine singular noun - pestilence
• *bə-ṯôḵəḵem*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in your midst
• *wə-nittaṯtem*: conjunction + Niphal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you will be given
• *bə-yaḏ*: preposition + feminine singular construct - into hand of
• *ʾôyēḇ*: Qal participle masculine singular - enemy

Word Meanings

• *hēḇēʾṯî*: bring/lead/carry
• *ḥereḇ*: sword/knife/cutting instrument
• *nōqemeṯ*: avenging/taking vengeance
• *nəqam*: vengeance/revenge
• *bərîṯ*: covenant/agreement/treaty
• *neʾĕsap̄tem*: be gathered/assembled/brought in
• *ʿārêḵem*: cities/towns
• *šillaḥtî*: send/dispatch/release
• *ḏeḇer*: pestilence/plague/disease
• *ṯôḵəḵem*: midst/middle/among
• *nittaṯtem*: be given/delivered/handed over
• *yaḏ*: hand/power/control
• *ʾôyēḇ*: enemy/foe/adversary

Referenced Verses

• Num 14:12 : 12 I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
• Ezek 5:17 : 17 And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and disease and violent death will go through you; and I will send the sword on you: I the Lord have said it.
• Ezek 6:3 : 3 You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.
• Ezek 14:17 : 17 Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
• Jer 24:10 : 10 And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.
• Jer 29:17-18 : 17 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad. 18 I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:
• Deut 28:21 : 21 The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.
• Deut 32:25 : 25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
• Ezek 29:8 : 8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.
• Ezek 33:2 : 2 Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:
• Amos 4:10 : 10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
• Luke 21:11 : 11 There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.
• Heb 10:28-30 : 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? 30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.
• Deut 32:41 : 41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
• Judg 2:14-16 : 14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them. 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them. 16 Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
• 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.
• Ps 78:62-64 : 62 He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage. 63 Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song. 64 Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.
• Ps 94:1 : 1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
• Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse. 6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
• Jer 9:16 : 16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.
• Jer 14:12-13 : 12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease. 13 Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
• Jer 15:2-4 : 2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away. 3 And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them. 4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
• Lam 2:21 : 21 The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
• Num 16:49 : 49 Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.
• Ezek 20:37 : 37 And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:
• Ezek 21:4-9 : 4 Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back. 6 Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes. 7 And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord. 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished: 10 It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ... 11 And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death. 12 Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief. 13 ... 14 So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them. 15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death. 16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered. 17 And I will put my hands together with a loud sound, and I will let my wrath have rest: I the Lord have said it.