Numbers 15:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י תָבֹ֗אוּ אֶל־אֶ֙רֶץ֙ מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲנִ֖י נֹתֵ֥ן לָכֶֽם

Transliteration

dabbēr ʾel-bənê yiśrāʾēl wə-ʾāmartā ʾălēhem kî tābōʾû ʾel-ʾereṣ môšəbōtêkem ʾăšer ʾănî nōtēn lākem

Grammar Details

• *dabbēr*: imperative, masculine singular, Piel - speak!
• *ʾel-bənê*: preposition + noun construct, masculine plural - to sons of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wə-ʾāmartā*: conjunction + perfect, 2nd masculine singular, Qal - and you shall say
• *ʾălēhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - unto them
• *kî*: conjunction - when/if/that
• *tābōʾû*: imperfect, 2nd masculine plural, Qal - you will come/enter
• *ʾel-ʾereṣ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - to land of
• *môšəbōtêkem*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your dwellings/habitations
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that/whom
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
• *nōtēn*: participle, masculine singular, Qal - giving
• *lākem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - to you

Word Meanings

• *kî*: when/if/because/that
• *tābōʾû*: you enter/come/arrive at
• *ʾereṣ*: land/earth/territory
• *môšəbōtêkem*: your dwelling places/habitations/settlements
• *nōtēn*: giving/am giving/will give

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:10 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
• Num 15:18 : 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
• Deut 7:1-2 : 1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
• Deut 12:1 : 1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
• Deut 12:9 : 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
• Lev 25:2 : 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
• Lev 14:34 : 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;