Numbers 14:31

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

wə-ṭappəkem ʾăšer ʾămartem lābaz yihyeh wəhēbêʾtî ʾōtām wəyādəʿû ʾet-hāʾāreṣ ʾăšer məʾastem bāh

Grammar Details

*wə-ṭappəkem*: conjunction + masculine singular collective noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - and your little ones
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*ʾămartem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *ʾmr* - you said
*lābaz*: preposition + masculine singular noun - for plunder
*yihyeh*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, Qal form of *hyh* - he/it will be
*wəhēbêʾtî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular, Hiphil form of *bwʾ* - and I will bring
*ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
*wəyādəʿû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd plural, Qal form of *ydʿ* - and they will know
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
*məʾastem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *mʾs* - you rejected
*bāh*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - in it

Word Meanings

*ṭappəkem*: your little ones/your children/your small children
*lābaz yihyeh*: would become plunder/will be prey/will be victims
*wəhēbêʾtî*: I will bring/I shall lead in
*wəyādəʿû*: and they will know/they shall experience/they will be acquainted with
*məʾastem bāh*: you have rejected/despised/refused

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Referenced Verses

Ps 106:24 : 24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Prov 1:25 : 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Prov 1:30 : 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Matt 22:5 : 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
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.
Heb 12:16-17 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Gen 25:34 : 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Num 14:3 : 3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Num 26:6 : 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Num 26:64 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 1:34-40
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85%
34And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
36Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
37Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
38But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Num 14:32-37
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32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Num 14:29-30
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29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
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Num 14:22-23
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78%
22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
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7And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
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51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
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Num 32:17
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Deut 4:21
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Deut 31:13
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Deut 9:28
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Deut 1:22
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Exod 23:30
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30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
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25And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
26Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
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Deut 9:23
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