Leviticus 26:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י תִּמְאָ֔סוּ וְאִ֥ם אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י תִּגְעַ֣ל נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם לְבִלְתִּ֤י עֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתַ֔י לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם אֶת־בְּרִיתִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-if-in-ḥuqqōtay timʾāsû and-if ʾet-mišpāṭay tigʿal napšekem to-biltî ʿăśôt ʾet-all-miṣwōtay to-happrekem ʾet-berîtî

Grammar Details

• *ḥuqqōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my statutes
• *timʾāsû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will reject
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *mišpāṭay*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my judgments
• *tigʿal*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it will abhor
• *napšekem*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your soul
• *biltî*: preposition - not
• *ʿăśôt*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to do
• *miṣwōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my commandments
• *happrekem*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your breaking
• *berîtî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my covenant

Word Meanings

• *ḥuqqōtay*: my statutes/my decrees/my ordinances
• *timʾāsû*: reject/despise/refuse
• *mišpāṭay*: my judgments/my ordinances/my laws
• *tigʿal*: abhor/loathe/reject
• *napšekem*: your soul/your being/yourselves
• *biltî*: not/without/except
• *happrekem*: your breaking/your violating/your nullifying
• *berîtî*: my covenant/my agreement/my promise

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
• Gen 17:14 : 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• Exod 24:7 : 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
• Lev 26:43 : 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
• Num 15:31 : 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
• 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest{H8804)} instruction, and castest{H8686)} my words behind thee.
• Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:30 : 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
• Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
• Jer 11:10 : 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
• Jer 31:32 : 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
• Ezek 16:59 : 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Zech 7:11-13 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
• Acts 13:41 : 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
• Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
• Heb 8:9 : 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.