Leviticus 26:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְרָדְפ֨וּ מִכֶּ֤ם חֲמִשָּׁה֙ מֵאָ֔ה וּמֵאָ֥ה מִכֶּ֖ם רְבָבָ֣ה יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ וְנָפְל֧וּ אֹיְבֵיכֶ֛ם לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם לֶחָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

And-rādepû from-you ḥămiššâ mēʾâ and-mēʾâ from-you rebābâ yirdōpû and-nāpelû ʾōyebêkem before-you to-ḥāreb

Grammar Details

• *rādepû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural with waw consecutive - and they will pursue
• *ḥămiššâ*: numeral, masculine - five
• *mēʾâ*: numeral, feminine - hundred
• *rebābâ*: numeral, feminine - ten thousand
• *yirdōpû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will pursue
• *nāpelû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural with waw consecutive - and they will fall
• *ʾōyebêkem*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your enemies
• *ḥāreb*: noun, feminine singular - sword

Word Meanings

• *rebābâ*: ten thousand/myriad/multitude
• *ʾōyebêkem*: your enemies/your foes/those who hate you
• *ḥāreb*: sword/warfare/slaughter

Referenced Verses

• Josh 23:10 : 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?
• Num 14:9 : 9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
• Deut 28:7 : 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
• Judg 7:19-21 : 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon. 21 They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
• 1 Sam 14:6-9 : 6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few. 7 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart. 8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them. 9 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them. 10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign to us. 11 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. 12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel. 13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him. 14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. 15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling. 16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.
• 1 Sam 17:45-52 : 45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand. 48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.
• 1 Chr 11:11 : 11 This is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them at one time.
• 1 Chr 11:20 : 20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
• Ps 81:14-15 : 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, And their punishment would last forever.