Numbers 14:28

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם חַי־אָ֙נִי֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה אִם־לֹ֕א כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבַּרְתֶּ֖ם בְּאָזְנָ֑י כֵּ֖ן אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה לָכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾĕmōr ʾălēhem ḥay-ʾănî nəʾum-YHWH ʾim-lōʾ kaʾăšer dibbartem bəʾoznāy kēn ʾeʿĕśeh lākem

Grammar Details

*ʾĕmōr*: imperative, masculine singular, Qal form of *ʾmr* - say
*ʾălēhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
*ḥay*: masculine singular adjective - living/alive
*ʾănî*: 1st singular personal pronoun - I
*nəʾum*: masculine singular construct - declaration of
*YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
*ʾim-lōʾ*: conditional particle + negative (oath formula for affirmative statement) - surely
*kaʾăšer*: compound preposition - according to what/as
*dibbartem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Piel form of *dbr* - you have spoken
*bəʾoznāy*: preposition + feminine dual noun + 1st singular suffix - in my ears
*kēn*: adverb - thus/so
*ʾeʿĕśeh*: imperfect, 1st singular, Qal form of *ʿśh* - I will do
*lākem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - to you

Word Meanings

*ʾĕmōr ʾălēhem*: say to them/tell them
*ḥay-ʾănî nəʾum-YHWH*: as I live, says YHWH/as surely as I live, declaration of YHWH
*ʾim-lōʾ*: surely/certainly/indeed (oath formula)
*kaʾăšer dibbartem bəʾoznāy*: as you have spoken in my ears/just as you have said in my hearing
*kēn ʾeʿĕśeh lākem*: so will I do to you/thus I will act toward you

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Referenced Verses

Num 14:21 : 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Num 14:23 : 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Heb 3:17 : 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Num 14:2 : 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Num 26:64-65 : 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 32:11 : 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Deut 1:35 : 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Ps 90:8-9 : 8 Thou hast set{H8804)} our iniquities before thee, our secret{H8803)} sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away{H8804)} in thy wrath: we spend{H8765)} our years as a tale that is told.

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