Deuteronomy 19:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹ֤א יִשָּׁפֵךְ֙ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֔י בְּקֶ֣רֶב אַרְצְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָ֑ה וְהָיָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יךָ דָּמִֽים

Transliteration

And-not yishāphekh dām nāqiy in-qereb ʾartsĕkhā which YHWH ʾĕlōhekhā nōten to-you naḥălāh and-hāyāh upon-you dāmim

Grammar Details

• *yishāphekh*: Niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'is poured out/shed'
• *dām*: common noun masculine singular - 'blood'
• *nāqiy*: adjective masculine singular - 'innocent'
• *qereb*: common noun masculine singular construct - 'midst of'
• *ʾartsĕkhā*: common noun feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your land'
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾĕlōhekhā*: common noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your God'
• *nōten*: Qal participle masculine singular - 'giving'
• *naḥălāh*: common noun feminine singular - 'inheritance'
• *hāyāh*: Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'it shall be'
• *dāmim*: common noun masculine plural - 'bloodguilt'

Word Meanings

• *yishāphekh*: is poured out/is shed/is spilled
• *dām*: blood/bloodshed
• *nāqiy*: innocent/blameless/free from guilt
• *qereb*: midst/within/among
• *nōten*: gives/is giving/grants
• *naḥălāh*: inheritance/possession/property
• *hāyāh*: will be/shall be/becomes
• *dāmim*: bloodguilt/blood guilt/liability for bloodshed

Referenced Verses

• Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
• Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
• Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
• Jer 7:6-7 : 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
• Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt will be a desolation, And Edom will be a desolate wilderness, For the violence done to the children of Judah, Because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
• Jonah 1:14 : 14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."
• Num 35:33 : 33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
• Deut 19:13 : 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
• Deut 21:1-9 : 1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him; 2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain: 3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
• 1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
• 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
• Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.