Numbers 24:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֚ל מוֹצִיא֣וֹ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם ל֑וֹ יֹאכַ֞ל גּוֹיִ֣ם צָרָ֗יו וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶ֛ם יְגָרֵ֖ם וְחִצָּ֥יו יִמְחָֽץ׃

Transliteration

ʾēl môṣîʾô from miṣrayim, like ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ rəʾēm for him, yōʾḵal gôyim his ṣārāw, and their ʿaṣmōṯêhem yəḡārēm, and his ḥiṣṣāw yimḥāṣ.

Grammar Details

• *ʾēl*: noun ms - 'God/deity'
• *môṣîʾô*: hiphil participle ms with 3ms suffix - 'bringing him out'
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
• *ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ*: noun fp construct - 'strength/horns of'
• *rəʾēm*: noun ms - 'wild ox'
• *yōʾḵal*: qal imperfect 3ms - 'he will devour'
• *gôyim*: noun mp - 'nations'
• *ṣārāw*: noun mp with 3ms suffix - 'his adversaries'
• *ʿaṣmōṯêhem*: noun fp with 3mp suffix - 'their bones'
• *yəḡārēm*: piel imperfect 3ms - 'he will crush/gnaw'
• *ḥiṣṣāw*: noun mp with 3ms suffix - 'his arrows'
• *yimḥāṣ*: qal imperfect 3ms - 'he will pierce/shatter'

Word Meanings

• *ʾēl*: God/deity/Mighty One
• *ṯôʿăp̄ōṯ*: strength/horns/swiftness
• *rəʾēm*: wild ox/unicorn/buffalo
• *yōʾḵal*: will devour/consume/eat
• *yəḡārēm*: will crush/gnaw/break
• *yimḥāṣ*: will pierce/shatter/strike through

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:22 : 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
• Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrows are sharp{H8802)} in the heart of the king's enemies{H8802)}; whereby the people fall{H8799)} under thee.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
• Num 23:24 : 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
• Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
• Num 14:9 : 9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
• Isa 38:13 : 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
• Jer 50:9 : 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
• Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
• Num 21:5 : 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
• Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
• Deut 7:1 : 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;
• Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
• Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.