Numbers 27:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִפְקֹ֣ד יְהוָ֔ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י הָרוּחֹ֖ת לְכָל־בָּשָׂ֑ר אִ֖ישׁ עַל־הָעֵדָֽה׃

Transliteration

yip̄qōḏ YHWH ʾĕlōhê hā-rûḥōt to all-bāśār ʾîš over-hā-ʿēḏāh.

Grammar Details

• *yip̄qōḏ*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular jussive - let him appoint
• *YHWH*: divine name - the LORD
• *ʾĕlōhê*: masculine plural construct - God of
• *hā-rûḥōt*: definite article + feminine plural noun - the spirits
• *lə-ḵol*: preposition + construct - to all
• *bāśār*: masculine singular noun - flesh
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ʿal*: preposition - over
• *hā-ʿēḏāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the congregation

Word Meanings

• *yip̄qōḏ*: appoint/number/visit/attend to
• *ʾĕlōhê* *hā-rûḥōt*: God of the spirits/God who gives breath to all
• *bāśār*: flesh/mankind/living beings
• *ʿēḏāh*: congregation/assembly/community

Referenced Verses

• Num 16:22 : 22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?
• Deut 31:14 : 14 At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.
• 1 Sam 12:13 : 13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.
• 1 Kgs 5:5 : 5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.
• Jer 3:15 : 15 And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
• Jer 23:4-5 : 4 And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord. 5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
• Ezek 34:11-16 : 11 For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. 13 And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. 14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord. 16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.
• Ezek 34:23 : 23 And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.
• Ezek 37:24 : 24 And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.
• Matt 9:38 : 38 Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
• John 10:11 : 11 I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
• Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
• 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind; 3 Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock. 4 And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.