Numbers 5:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַ֗תְּ כִּ֥י שָׂטִ֛ית תַּ֥חַת אִישֵׁ֖ךְ וְכִ֣י נִטְמֵ֑את וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אִ֥ישׁ בָּךְ֙ אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּ֔וֹ מִֽבַּלְעֲדֵ֖י אִישֵֽׁךְ׃

Transliteration

And ʾatt if śāṭît under ʾîšēḵ and-if niṭmēʾt and yittēn ʾîš in-you ʾet-šəḵāḇtô besides ʾîšēḵ

Grammar Details

• *ʾatt*: 2nd feminine singular personal pronoun - you
• *śāṭît*: Qal perfect, 2nd feminine singular - you have gone aside/turned aside
• *ʾîšēḵ*: masculine singular with 2nd feminine singular suffix - your husband
• *niṭmēʾt*: Niphal perfect, 2nd feminine singular with waw conjunctive - and you are defiled
• *yittēn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and has given
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular - man
• *šəḵāḇtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his emission

Word Meanings

• *ʾatt*: you
• *śāṭît*: gone aside/turned aside/been unfaithful
• *ʾîšēḵ*: your husband/your man
• *niṭmēʾt*: are defiled/made unclean/impure
• *yittēn*: given/placed/put
• *ʾîš*: man/male person
• *šəḵāḇtô*: his emission/intercourse/lying with

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But and yf thou hast gone asyde behynde thyne husbonde and art defyled and some other man hath lyen with the besyde thyne husbonde

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But yf thou hast gone asyde from thy hu?bande, so that thou art defyled, and some other man hath lyen with the besyde thy hu?bande,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But and if thou hast gone aside from thyne husbande, and art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thyne husbande:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But if thou hast gone aside [to another] instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:'

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband --

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

• World English Bible (2000)

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

Referenced Verses

• Num 5:12 : 12 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,