Numbers 17:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵרֹ֗מּוּ מִתּוֹךְ֙ הָעֵדָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וַאֲכַלֶּ֥ה אֹתָ֖ם כְּרָ֑גַע וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

hērōmmû from-tôk the-ʿēdāh the-zōʾt and-ʾăkalleh ʾōtām in-kərāgaʿ and wayyippəlû on-pənêhem

Grammar Details

• *hērōmmû*: niphal imperative, masculine plural - be removed/lifted up
• *min*: preposition - from
• *tôk*: noun, masculine singular construct - midst of
• *ʿēdāh*: noun, feminine singular - assembly/congregation
• *zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *ʾăkalleh*: piel imperfect cohortative, 1st common singular - I will consume/destroy
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *kərāgaʿ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in a moment
• *wayyippəlû*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd common plural - and they fell
• *ʿal*: preposition - on/upon
• *pənêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their faces

Word Meanings

• *hērōmmû*: be removed/get away/separate yourselves
• *tôk*: midst/middle/among
• *ʿēdāh*: assembly/congregation/community
• *ʾăkalleh*: I will consume/destroy/put an end to
• *kərāgaʿ*: in a moment/instantly/immediately

Referenced Verses

• Num 16:38 : 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
• Heb 9:4 : 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
• Exod 16:32 : 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
• Num 16:40 : 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
• Deut 9:24 : 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
• Deut 31:19-26 : 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
• 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• 1 Sam 30:22 : 22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie{H8799)} even among them that are set on fire{H8802)}, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.