Leviticus 26:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֨י בָכֶ֜ם אֶת־חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְשִׁכְּלָ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִכְרִ֙יתָה֙ אֶת־בְּהֶמְתְּכֶ֔ם וְהִמְעִ֖יטָה אֶתְכֶ֑ם וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּ דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wə-hišlaḥtî among you ḇāḵem ʾet-ḥayyaṯ ha-śāḏeh and wə-šikkəlâ you ʾeṯḵem and wə-hiḵrîṯâ ʾet-bəhemtəḵem and wə-himʿîṭâ you ʾeṯḵem and wə-nāšammû darḵêḵem.

Grammar Details

*wə-hišlaḥtî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will send
*ḇāḵem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - among you
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ḥayyaṯ*: feminine singular construct - animal/beast of
*ha-śāḏeh*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the field
*wə-šikkəlâ*: conjunction + Piel perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will bereave
*ʾeṯḵem*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
*wə-hiḵrîṯâ*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will cut off
*bəhemtəḵem*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your cattle
*wə-himʿîṭâ*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it will diminish
*wə-nāšammû*: conjunction + Niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - and they will be desolate
*darḵêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your ways/roads

Word Meanings

*hišlaḥtî*: send/let loose/release
*ḥayyaṯ*: beast/animal/living creature
*śāḏeh*: field/open country
*šikkəlâ*: bereave/make childless/destroy
*hiḵrîṯâ*: cut off/destroy/eliminate
*bəhemtəḵem*: cattle/livestock/beasts
*himʿîṭâ*: diminish/reduce/make few
*nāšammû*: be desolate/deserted/uninhabited
*darḵêḵem*: ways/roads/paths

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:24 : 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Judg 5:6 : 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Lev 26:6 : 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Zech 7:14 : 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Ezek 5:17 : 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Jer 15:3 : 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
2 Chr 15:5 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
Isa 24:6 : 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezek 33:28 : 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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