Deuteronomy 32:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

ṣûr yəlādəḵā tešî wattiškaḥ ʾēl məḥōleleḵā

Grammar Details

*ṣûr*: masculine singular noun - rock
*yəlādəḵā*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - who begot you
*tešî*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you forgot/neglected
*wattiškaḥ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - and you forgot
*ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God
*məḥōleleḵā*: Polel participle masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - who gave you birth

Word Meanings

*ṣûr yəlādəḵā*: rock who begot you/rock who fathered you
*tešî*: you forgot/you neglected/you were unmindful
*wattiškaḥ*: and you forgot/and you ignored/and you were unmindful
*ʾēl məḥōleleḵā*: God who gave you birth/God who brought you forth/God who formed you

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Referenced Verses

Isa 17:10 : 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Ps 106:21 : 21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Ps 44:20-22 : 20 If we have forgotten{H8804)} the name of our God, or stretched out{H8799)} our hands to a strange{H8801)} god; 21 Shall not God search this out{H8799)}? for he knoweth{H8802)} the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed{H8795)} all the day long; we are counted{H8738)} as sheep for the slaughter.
Deut 6:12 : 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deut 8:11 : 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deut 8:14 : 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Deut 8:19 : 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Jer 3:21 : 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Isa 22:10-11 : 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

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5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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14Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
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