Deuteronomy 8:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַמּוֹלִ֨יכֲךָ֜ בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר ׀ הַגָּדֹ֣ל וְהַנּוֹרָ֗א נָחָ֤שׁ ׀ שָׂרָף֙ וְעַקְרָ֔ב וְצִמָּא֖וֹן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֵֽין־מָ֑יִם הַמּוֹצִ֤יא לְךָ֙ מַ֔יִם מִצּ֖וּר הֽ͏ַחַלָּמִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

The-môlîkăkā in-the-midbār the-gādōl and-the-nôrāʾ nāḥāš śārāp and-ʿaqrāb and-tsimmāʾôn which ʾên-māyim the-môtsîʾ for-you māyim from-tsûr the-ḥallāmîš.

Grammar Details

*môlîkăkā*: Hiphil participle with 2nd person masculine singular suffix with definite article - the one leading you
*midbār*: masculine singular noun with definite article with prefixed preposition - in the wilderness
*gādōl*: masculine singular adjective with definite article - the great
*nôrāʾ*: Niphal participle masculine singular with definite article - the terrible
*nāḥāš*: masculine singular noun - serpent
*śārāp*: masculine singular noun - fiery (serpent)
*ʿaqrāb*: masculine singular noun - scorpion
*tsimmāʾôn*: masculine singular noun - thirsty ground
*ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
*māyim*: masculine plural noun - water
*môtsîʾ*: Hiphil participle with definite article - the one bringing out
*tsûr*: masculine singular noun - rock
*ḥallāmîš*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the flint

Word Meanings

*môlîkăkā*: leading you/guiding you/causing you to walk
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*gādōl*: great/large/mighty
*nôrāʾ*: terrible/dreadful/awesome
*nāḥāš*: serpent/snake
*śārāp*: fiery (serpent)/venomous serpent
*ʿaqrāb*: scorpion
*tsimmāʾôn*: thirsty ground/drought/parched land
*tsûr*: rock/cliff/boulder
*ḥallāmîš*: flint/hard rock

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Referenced Verses

Num 20:11 : 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
Num 21:6 : 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Ps 114:8 : 8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Deut 1:19 : 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Hos 13:5 : 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
1 Cor 10:4 : 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Exod 17:5-6 : 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Deut 32:13 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Ps 78:15-16 : 15 He clave{H8762)} the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink{H8686)} as out of the great depths. 16 He brought{H8686)} streams{H8802)} also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down{H8686)} like rivers.
Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Ps 136:16 : 16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Isa 35:7 : 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Isa 63:12-14 : 12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble? 14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

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