Numbers 10:31

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אַל־נָ֖א תַּעֲזֹ֣ב אֹתָ֑נוּ כִּ֣י ׀ עַל־כֵּ֣ן יָדַ֗עְתָּ חֲנֹתֵ֙נוּ֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר וְהָיִ֥יתָ לָּ֖נוּ לְעֵינָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer not-nāʾ taʿăzōb us because therefore yādaʿtā ḥănōtēnû in-the-midbār and-hāyîtā to-us for-ʿênāyim.

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
*nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please
*taʿăzōb*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you leave/forsake
*yādaʿtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you know
*ḥănōtēnû*: Qal infinitive construct with 1st common plural suffix - our encamping
*midbār*: masculine singular noun - wilderness/desert
*hāyîtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have been
*ʿênāyim*: feminine dual noun - eyes

Word Meanings

*wayyōʾmer*: and he said/replied
*nāʾ*: please/I pray/I urge
*taʿăzōb*: you leave/forsake/abandon
*yādaʿtā*: you know/are familiar with
*ḥănōtēnû*: our encamping/camping
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*hāyîtā*: you have been/will be
*ʿênāyim*: eyes/sight/guidance

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Referenced Verses

Job 29:15 : 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
1 Cor 12:14-21 : 14 {G2532} For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Gal 6:2 : 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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