Numbers 12:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּ֣ה אֶל־פֶּ֞ה אֲדַבֶּר־בּ֗וֹ וּמַרְאֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א בְחִידֹ֔ת וּתְמֻנַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה יַבִּ֑יט וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙ לֹ֣א יְרֵאתֶ֔ם לְדַבֵּ֖ר בְּעַבְדִּ֥י בְמֹשֶֽׁה׃

Transliteration

Peh ʾel-peh ʾădabbēr-bō ūmarʾeh wə-lōʾ ḇəḥîdōt ūtəmūnat YHWH yabbîṭ ūmaddūaʿ lōʾ yərēʾtem lədabbēr bə-ʿaḇdî ḇə-Mōšeh

Grammar Details

• *Peh*: masculine singular noun - 'mouth'
• *ʾel-peh*: preposition + masculine singular noun - 'to mouth'
• *ʾădabbēr-bō*: Piel imperfect, 1st person singular + preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'I speak with him'
• *ūmarʾeh*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - 'and appearance'
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - 'and not'
• *ḇəḥîdōt*: preposition + feminine plural noun - 'in riddles'
• *ūtəmūnat*: conjunction + feminine singular construct - 'and form of'
• *YHWH*: proper noun - 'the LORD'
• *yabbîṭ*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he beholds'
• *ūmaddūaʿ*: conjunction + interrogative - 'and why'
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - 'not'
• *yərēʾtem*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - 'you feared'
• *lədabbēr*: preposition + Piel infinitive construct - 'to speak'
• *bə-ʿaḇdî*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - 'against my servant'
• *ḇə-Mōšeh*: preposition + proper noun - 'against Moses'

Word Meanings

• *Peh* *ʾel-peh*: mouth to mouth/face to face
• *ūmarʾeh*: and appearance/and visibly/clearly
• *ḇəḥîdōt*: in riddles/in dark sayings
• *təmūnat*: form/likeness/manifestation
• *yabbîṭ*: he beholds/he looks upon/he sees
• *yərēʾtem*: you feared/you were afraid

Referenced Verses

• Deut 34:10 : 10 There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had knowledge of face to face;
• 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
• Exod 33:11 : 11 And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.
• Exod 24:10-11 : 10 And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. 11 And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.
• Exod 33:23 : 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.
• Ps 49:4 : 4 I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
• Isa 40:18 : 18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
• Isa 46:5 : 5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
• Ezek 17:2 : 2 Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,
• Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?
• Matt 13:35 : 35 That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
• Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
• John 1:18 : 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
• John 14:7-9 : 7 If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him. 8 Philip said to him, Lord, let us see the Father, and we have need of nothing more. 9 Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father? 10 Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.
• John 15:15 : 15 No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
• John 15:24 : 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. 6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
• 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
• 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
• 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:
• Jude 1:8 : 8 In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.
• Deut 4:15 : 15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
• Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
• Exod 34:30 : 30 But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.
• Num 14:14 : 14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Exod 20:4 : 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
• Exod 33:19 : 19 And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.