Deuteronomy 32:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

Transliteration

šiḥēṯ lô lōʾ bānāyw mûmām dôr ʿiqqēš ûp̄əṯaltōl

Grammar Details

*šiḥēṯ*: Piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - acted corruptly
*lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him/against him
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*bānāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his sons/children
*mûmām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person plural suffix - their blemish/defect
*dôr*: masculine singular noun - generation
*ʿiqqēš*: masculine singular adjective - perverse/crooked
*ûp̄əṯaltōl*: conjunction + masculine singular adjective - and twisted/tortuous

Word Meanings

*šiḥēṯ*: acted corruptly/destroyed/ruined
*lô*: to him/against him/with respect to him
*bānāyw*: his sons/his children
*mûmām*: their blemish/their defect/their spot
*dôr*: generation/age/period
*ʿiqqēš*: perverse/crooked/twisted
*pəṯaltōl*: twisted/tortuous/crooked

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Referenced Verses

Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Luke 9:41 : 41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
John 8:41 : 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Judg 2:19 : 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn{H8802)} and rebellious{H8802)} generation; a generation that set not their heart aright{H8689)}, and whose spirit was not stedfast{H8738)} with God.
Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Gen 6:12 : 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Exod 32:7 : 7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Deut 4:16 : 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deut 9:24 : 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

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