Numbers 14:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם יִהְי֨וּ רֹעִ֤ים בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וְנָשְׂא֖וּ אֶת־זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם עַד־תֹּ֥ם פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

Transliteration

û-bənêkem yihyû rōʿîm bammidbār ʾarbāʿîm šānāh wənāśəʾû ʾet-zənûtêkem ʿad-tōm pigrêkem bammidbār

Grammar Details

• *û-bənêkem*: conjunction + masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - and your sons
• *yihyû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, Qal form of *hyh* - they will be
• *rōʿîm*: masculine plural participle, Qal form of *rʿh* - shepherds/wandering
• *bammidbār*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the wilderness
• *ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
• *šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
• *wənāśəʾû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd plural, Qal form of *nśʾ* - and they will bear
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *zənûtêkem*: feminine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your harlotries/unfaithfulness
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *tōm*: masculine singular construct - completion of
• *pigrêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your corpses

Word Meanings

• *rōʿîm*: shepherds/wandering/moving about as nomads
• *wənāśəʾû ʾet-zənûtêkem*: and shall bear your unfaithfulness/will carry your infidelities/will suffer for your prostitutions
• *zənûtêkem*: your harlotries/your unfaithfulness/your infidelities
• *ʿad-tōm pigrêkem*: until the completion of your corpses/until your carcasses are consumed/until your dead bodies perish

Referenced Verses

• Num 32:13 : 13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
• Deut 2:14 : 14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
• Ps 107:40 : 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
• Ezek 23:35 : 35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
• Ezek 23:45-49 : 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
• Jer 3:1-2 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
• Josh 14:10 : 10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
• Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
• Num 33:38 : 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
• Deut 1:3 : 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
• Num 5:31 : 31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.