Leviticus 26:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם בְּשַׂ֣ר בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם וּבְשַׂ֥ר בְּנֹתֵיכֶ֖ם תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

And wa-ʾăḵaltem bəśar bənêḵem and û-ḇəśar bənōṯêḵem tōʾḵēlû.

Grammar Details

• *wa-ʾăḵaltem*: conjunction + Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you will eat
• *bəśar*: masculine singular construct - flesh of
• *bənêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *û-ḇəśar*: conjunction + masculine singular construct - and flesh of
• *bənōṯêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your daughters
• *tōʾḵēlû*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will eat

Word Meanings

• *ʾăḵaltem*: eat/consume/devour
• *bəśar*: flesh/meat/body
• *bənêḵem*: your sons/children (male)
• *bənōṯêḵem*: your daughters/children (female)
• *tōʾḵēlû*: eat/consume/devour

Referenced Verses

• Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
• Matt 24:19 : 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
• Luke 23:29 : 29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
• Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
• 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
• Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?