Exodus 23:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִשָּׁ֧מֶר מִפָּנָ֛יו וּשְׁמַ֥ע בְּקֹל֖וֹ אַל־תַּמֵּ֣ר בּ֑וֹ כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יִשָּׂא֙ לְפִשְׁעֲכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י שְׁמִ֖י בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Hiššāmer from-pānāyw and-šĕmaʿ in-qōlô not-tammēr in-him for not yiśśāʾ to-pišʿăkem for šĕmî in-qirbô

Grammar Details

• *hiššāmer*: niphal imperative masculine singular - be careful/beware
• *pānāyw*: noun masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his face/presence
• *šĕmaʿ*: qal imperative masculine singular - hear/listen/obey
• *qōlô*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his voice
• *tammēr*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular jussive - rebel/be bitter
• *yiśśāʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - lift/bear/forgive
• *pišʿăkem*: noun masculine singular with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your transgression
• *šĕmî*: noun masculine singular with 1st person common singular suffix - my name
• *qirbô*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his midst

Word Meanings

• *hiššāmer*: be careful/beware/take heed/guard yourself
• *tammēr*: rebel/be bitter/provoke/disobey
• *yiśśāʾ*: lift/bear/forgive/pardon
• *pišʿăkem*: your transgression/rebellion/sin
• *qirbô*: his midst/within him/in him

Referenced Verses

• Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!
• Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn't keep his testimonies;
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Exod 3:14 : 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: "I AM has sent me to you."
• John 10:30 : 30 I and the Father are one."
• John 10:38 : 38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
• Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
• Exod 32:34 : 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
• Num 14:11 : 11 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
• Num 14:35 : 35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
• Deut 18:19 : 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
• Josh 24:19 : 19 Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
• Ps 72:19 : 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
• Ps 83:18 : 18 That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.{"Immanuel" means "God with us."}
• Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Isa 42:8 : 8 I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.
• Isa 45:6 : 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Jer 5:7 : 7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
• Jer 23:6 : 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
• Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" Which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
• John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
• Heb 3:10-11 : 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;' 11 As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
• Heb 3:16 : 16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
• Heb 10:26-29 : 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
• Eph 4:30 : 30 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
• Exod 6:3 : 3 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
• 1 John 5:16 : 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don't say that he should make a request concerning this.
• Rev 1:8 : 8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega,{TR adds "the Beginning and the End"}" says the Lord God,{TR omits "God"} "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
• Rev 2:8 : 8 "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
• Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: