Numbers 9:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then Moses saide vnto them, Stande still, and I will heare what the Lorde will commande concerning you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה עִמְד֣וּ וְאֶשְׁמְעָ֔ה מַה־יְצַוֶּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה לָכֶֽם׃ פ

Transliteration

wayyōʾmer to them Mōšeh ʿimḏû and ʾešmə'āh what yəṣawweh YHWH for you.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun - Moses
• *ʿimḏû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - stand/wait
• *ʾešmə'āh*: Qal cohortative, 1st common singular - let me hear
• *yəṣawweh*: Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will command
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *lāḵem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - for you

Word Meanings

• *ʿimḏû*: stand/wait/remain
• *ʾešmə'āh*: let me hear/listen/find out
• *yəṣawweh*: commands/orders/instructs

Referenced Verses

• Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say: for he will speake peace vnto his people, and to his Saintes, that they turne not againe to follie.
• Num 27:5 : 5 Then Moses brought their cause before the Lorde.
• 2 Chr 20:17 : 17 Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell: stand still, moue not, and behold the saluation of the Lord towardes you: O Iudah, and Ierusalem, feare ye not, neither be afraid: to morow goe out against them, and the Lord wilbe with you.
• Ps 25:14 : 14 The secrete of the Lorde is reueiled to them, that feare him: and his couenant to giue them vnderstanding.
• Exod 14:13 : 13 Then Moses sayde to the people, Feare ye not, stand still, and beholde the saluation of the Lord which he will shew to you this day. For the Egyptians, whome ye haue seene this day, ye shall neuer see them againe.
• Exod 18:15 : 15 And Moses sayd vnto his father in law, Because the people come vnto me to seeke God.
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in the Lorde with all thine heart, and leane not vnto thine owne wisdome. 6 In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy wayes.
• Ezek 2:7 : 7 Therefore thou shalt speake my words vnto them: but surely they will not heare, neither will they in deede cease: for they are rebellious.
• Ezek 3:17 : 17 Sonne of man, I haue made thee a watchman vnto the house of Israel: therefore heare the worde at my mouth, and giue them warning from me.
• John 7:17 : 17 If any man will doe his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.
• John 17:8 : 8 For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, & haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.
• Acts 20:27 : 27 For I haue kept nothing backe, but haue shewed you all the counsell of God.
• 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.
• 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I haue receiued of the Lorde that which I also haue deliuered vnto you, to wit, That the Lorde Iesus in the night when he was betrayed, tooke bread:
• Heb 3:5-6 : 5 Now Moses verely was faithfull in all his house, as a seruant, for a witnesse of the thinges which should be spoken after. 6 But Christ is as the Sonne, ouer his owne house, whose house we are, if we holde fast that confidence and that reioycing of that hope vnto the ende.