Numbers 14:34

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

After 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־תַּרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת־הָאָרֶץ֮ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים יוֹם֒ י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֞ה י֣וֹם לַשָּׁנָ֗ה תִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־עֲוֺנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־תְּנוּאָתִֽי׃

Transliteration

bəmispar hayyāmîm ʾăšer-tartem ʾet-hāʾāreṣ ʾarbāʿîm yôm yôm laššānāh yôm laššānāh tiśʾû ʾet-ʿăwōnōtêkem ʾarbāʿîm šānāh wîdaʿtem ʾet-tənûʾātî

Grammar Details

*bəmispar*: preposition + masculine singular construct - by number of
*hayyāmîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the days
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*tartem*: perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *twr* - you spied out
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
*ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
*yôm*: masculine singular noun - day
*yôm laššānāh*: masculine singular noun + preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - day for the year
*tiśʾû*: imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *nśʾ* - you will bear
*ʿăwōnōtêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your iniquities
*šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
*wîdaʿtem*: conjunction + perfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal form of *ydʿ* - and you will know
*tənûʾātî*: feminine singular noun + 1st singular suffix - my opposition/alienation

Word Meanings

*bəmispar hayyāmîm*: according to the number of days/by the count of days
*tartem*: you spied out/you explored/you searched
*yôm laššānāh yôm laššānāh*: a day for a year, a day for a year (repetition for emphasis)
*tiśʾû ʾet-ʿăwōnōtêkem*: you shall bear your iniquities/you will carry your punishments
*ʿăwōnōtêkem*: your iniquities/your guilt/your punishment
*tənûʾātî*: my alienation/my opposition/my hostility/my rejection

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Referenced Verses

Num 13:25 : 25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
Ezek 4:6 : 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Zech 11:10 : 10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
Heb 4:1 : 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Rev 11:3 : 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Ezek 14:10 : 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
Lev 20:19 : 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Num 18:23 : 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Deut 31:16-17 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Kgs 8:56 : 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
2 Chr 36:21 : 21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Ps 38:4 : 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy{H8799)} for me.
Ps 77:8 : 8 Is his mercy clean gone{H8804)} for ever? doth his promise fail{H8804)} for evermore?
Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Ps 105:42 : 42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Jer 18:9-9 : 9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; 10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Lam 3:31-33 : 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Num 14:27-33
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27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
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,
30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31But 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.
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.
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14And 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.
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10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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5For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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13And 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.
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6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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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.
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Deut 29:5
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5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
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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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Neh 9:21
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21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
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Deut 1:40
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Ps 78:40
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Deut 1:37
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