Deuteronomy 32:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

yizbəḥû laššēdîm lōʾ ʾĕlōah ʾĕlōhîm lōʾ yədāʿûm ḥădāšîm miqqārōḇ bāʾû lōʾ śəʿārûm ʾăḇōṯêḵem

Grammar Details

*yizbəḥû*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they sacrificed
*laššēdîm*: preposition + masculine plural noun with definite article - to the demons
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʾĕlōah*: masculine singular noun - God/god
*ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - gods
*yədāʿûm*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - they knew them
*ḥădāšîm*: masculine plural adjective - new ones
*miqqārōḇ*: preposition + masculine singular noun - from recently
*bāʾû*: Qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they came
*śəʿārûm*: Qal perfect 3rd person common plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - they dreaded them
*ʾăḇōṯêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers

Word Meanings

*yizbəḥû*: they sacrificed/they offered/they slaughtered
*šēdîm*: demons/evil spirits/false gods
*lōʾ ʾĕlōah*: not God/no god/godless things
*yədāʿûm*: they knew them/they were acquainted with them/they recognized them
*ḥădāšîm*: new ones/newcomers/recent ones
*miqqārōḇ*: from recently/from nearby/lately
*bāʾû*: they came/they arrived/they appeared
*śəʿārûm*: they dreaded them/they feared them/they were terrified of them

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Referenced Verses

Judg 5:8 : 8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Deut 28:64 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Lev 17:7 : 7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Ps 106:37-38 : 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Isa 44:8 : 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Rev 9:20 : 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

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