Joshua 22:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִבְנ֥וֹת לָ֙נוּ֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לָשׁ֖וּב מֵאַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְאִם־לְהַעֲל֨וֹת עָלָ֜יו עוֹלָ֣ה וּמִנְחָ֗ה וְאִם־לַעֲשׂ֤וֹת עָלָיו֙ זִבְחֵ֣י שְׁלָמִ֔ים יְהוָ֖ה ה֥וּא יְבַקֵּֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

li-bnôt lānû mizbēaḥ lāšûb mēʾaḥărê YHWH wə-ʾim-lə-haʿălôt ʿālāyv ʿôlāh û-minḥāh wə-ʾim-la-ʿăśôt ʿālāyw zibḥê šəlāmîm YHWH hûʾ yəbaqqēš

Grammar Details

*li-bnôt*: preposition + infinitive construct - to build
*lānû*: preposition + 1st person common plural suffix - for us
*mizbēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - altar
*lāšûb*: preposition + infinitive construct - to turn/return
*mēʾaḥărê*: preposition + preposition - from after/from following
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*wə-ʾim*: waw-conjunctive + conditional particle - and if
*lə-haʿălôt*: preposition + infinitive construct, Hiphil - to offer/bring up
*ʿālāyv*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - on it
*ʿôlāh*: noun, feminine singular - burnt offering
*û-minḥāh*: waw-conjunctive + noun, feminine singular - and grain offering
*la-ʿăśôt*: preposition + infinitive construct - to make/prepare
*ʿālāyw*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - on it
*zibḥê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sacrifices of
*šəlāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - peace offerings
*hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
*yəbaqqēš*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, Piel - he will require/seek

Word Meanings

*li-bnôt*: to build/to construct
*lāšûb*: to turn/to return/to turn away
*lə-haʿălôt*: to offer/to bring up/to sacrifice
*ʿôlāh*: burnt offering/whole burnt offering
*minḥāh*: grain offering/meal offering/tribute
*zibḥê šəlāmîm*: peace offerings/fellowship offerings/communion sacrifices
*yəbaqqēš*: he will require/he will seek/he will demand

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Referenced Verses

Deut 18:19 : 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
1 Sam 20:16 : 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
2 Chr 24:22 : 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
Ps 10:13-14 : 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezek 33:6 : 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezek 33:8 : 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Gen 9:4 : 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

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