Exodus 22:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־כֶּ֣סֶף ׀ תַּלְוֶ֣ה אֶת־עַמִּ֗י אֶת־הֶֽעָנִי֙ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹא־תִהְיֶ֥ה ל֖וֹ כְּנֹשֶׁ֑ה לֹֽא־תְשִׂימ֥וּן עָלָ֖יו נֶֽשֶׁךְ׃

Transliteration

If kesef talweh ʾet-my ʿammî, ʾet-the ʿānî with you, not tihyeh to him like nōšeh; not tĕśîmûn on him nešek.

Grammar Details

• *kesef*: masculine singular noun, 'silver/money'
• *talweh*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you lend'
• *ʿammî*: masculine singular noun with 1st common singular suffix, 'my people'
• *ʿānî*: definite masculine singular adjective, 'poor'
• *tihyeh*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you shall be'
• *nōšeh*: qal participle, masculine singular, 'creditor/one who lends'
• *tĕśîmûn*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, 'you shall put'
• *nešek*: masculine singular noun, 'interest/usury'

Word Meanings

• *talweh*: lend/loan
• *nōšeh*: creditor/money-lender/usurer
• *nešek*: interest/usury

Referenced Verses

• Ps 109:9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
• Ps 69:24 : 24 Pour out{H8798)} thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold{H8686)} of them.
• Lam 5:3 : 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
• Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
• Luke 6:38 : 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
• Rom 2:5-9 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Ps 76:7 : 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared{H8737)}: and who may stand{H8799)} in thy sight when once thou art angry?
• Ps 78:63-64 : 63 The fire consumed{H8804)} their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage{H8795)}. 64 Their priests fell{H8804)} by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation{H8799)}.
• Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knoweth{H8802)} the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
• Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
• Job 27:13-15 : 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
• Job 31:23 : 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.