Numbers 32:19

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י לֹ֤א נִנְחַל֙ אִתָּ֔ם מֵעֵ֥בֶר לַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן וָהָ֑לְאָה כִּ֣י בָ֤אָה נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙ אֵלֵ֔ינוּ מֵעֵ֥בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן מִזְרָֽחָה׃ פ

Transliteration

kî lōʾ ninḥal ʾittām mēʿēber layyardēn wāhālʾāh kî bāʾāh naḥălātēnū ʾēlēynū mēʿēber hayyardēn mizrāḥāh

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ninḥal*: qal imperfect, 1st person plural - we will inherit
• *ʾittām*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - with them
• *mēʿēber*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from across/beyond
• *layyardēn*: preposition + definite article + proper noun - to the Jordan
• *wāhālʾāh*: conjunction + adverb - and beyond
• *bāʾāh*: qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - has come
• *naḥălātēnū*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person plural suffix - our inheritance
• *ʾēlēynū*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - to us
• *hayyardēn*: definite article + proper noun - the Jordan
• *mizrāḥāh*: noun, feminine singular with directional suffix - eastward

Word Meanings

• *ninḥal*: we will inherit/receive possession
• *mēʿēber*: from across/beyond/on the other side of
• *bāʾāh*: has come/is come/has arrived

Referenced Verses

• Josh 13:8 : 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
• 2 Kgs 10:32-33 : 32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; 33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
• 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
• 1 Chr 5:25-26 : 25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
• Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Gen 13:10-12 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
• Gen 14:12 : 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
• Num 32:32-33 : 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours. 33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
• Num 34:15 : 15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
• Josh 1:14-15 : 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them; 15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
• Josh 12:1-6 : 1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah: 4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.