Deuteronomy 28:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַדְבֵּ֧ק יְהוָ֛ה בְּךָ֖ אֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר עַ֚ד כַּלֹּת֣וֹ אֹֽתְךָ֔ מֵעַל֙ הֽ͏ָאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

yadbēq YHWH bəkā ʾet-haddāber ʿad kallōtô ʾōtəkā mēʿal hāʾădāmâ ʾăšer-ʾattâ bāʾ-šāmmâ lərištāh

Grammar Details

*yadbēq*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will cause to cling
*YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD
*bəkā*: preposition (bə-) + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
*ʾet*-*haddāber*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, masculine singular - the plague/pestilence
*ʿad*: preposition - until
*kallōtô*: piel infinitive construct of כלה with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his consuming/finishing
*ʾōtəkā*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - you
*mēʿal*: preposition (min-) + preposition (ʿal) - from upon
*hāʾădāmâ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the ground/land
*ʾăšer*-*ʾattâ*: relative pronoun + 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - which you
*bāʾ*-*šāmmâ*: qal participle, masculine singular + adverb - entering there
*lərištāh*: preposition (lə-) + qal infinitive construct of ירשׁ with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to possess it

Word Meanings

*yadbēq*: cause to cling/stick/cleave to
*haddāber*: plague/pestilence/disease
*kallōtô*: his consuming/completing/annihilating
*hāʾădāmâ*: ground/land/earth/soil
*bāʾ*: entering/going/coming
*lərištāh*: to possess/inherit/occupy it

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Referenced Verses

Lev 26:25 : 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Jer 24:10 : 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Num 14:12 : 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Num 16:46-49 : 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Num 25:9 : 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
Jer 15:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jer 16:4 : 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jer 21:6-7 : 6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Matt 26:7 : 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Exod 5:3 : 3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

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Deut 28:22-25
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18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
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