Deuteronomy 21:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְאִ֗ישׁ חֵ֛טְא מִשְׁפַּט־מָ֖וֶת וְהוּמָ֑ת וְתָלִ֥יתָ אֹת֖וֹ עַל־עֵֽץ׃

Transliteration

And-when-yihyeh in-ʾîš ḥēṭʾ mišpaṭ-māwet and-hûmāt, and-tālîtā [direct object]-him on-ʿēṣ.

Grammar Details

• *yihyeh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - there is
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ḥēṭʾ*: masculine singular noun - sin
• *mišpaṭ*: masculine singular noun construct - judgment of
• *māwet*: masculine singular noun - death
• *hûmāt*: Hophal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he is put to death
• *tālîtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you hang
• *ʿēṣ*: masculine singular noun - tree/wood/pole

Word Meanings

• *ḥēṭʾ*: sin/crime/offense
• *mišpaṭ*-*māwet*: judgment of death/capital offense
• *hûmāt*: is put to death/is executed
• *tālîtā*: hang/suspend
• *ʿēṣ*: tree/wood/pole/stake

Referenced Verses

• Deut 22:26 : 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
• Acts 23:29 : 29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
• Matt 26:66 : 66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
• Mark 14:64 : 64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
• Luke 23:33 : 33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
• John 19:31-38 : 31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day,(for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
• Josh 8:29 : 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
• Josh 10:26 : 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
• 1 Sam 26:16 : 16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
• 2 Sam 4:12 : 12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
• 2 Sam 21:6 : 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
• 2 Sam 21:9 : 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
• Acts 25:11 : 11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
• Acts 25:25 : 25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
• Acts 26:31 : 31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
• Num 25:4 : 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
• Deut 19:6 : 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.