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Numbers 14:3
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📖 King James Version

And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וְ/לָ/מָ֣ה מָה H4100 HC/R/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
2 יְ֠הוָה יְהֹוָה H3068 HNp יְהֹוָה from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.
3 מֵבִ֨יא בּוֹא H935 HVhrmsa בּוֹא a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications): abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
4 אֹתָ֜/נוּ אוֹת H853 HTo/Sp1cp אוֹת apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely): (as such unrepresented in English).
5 אֶל אֶל H413 HR אֶל (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
6 הָ/אָ֤רֶץ אָ֫רֶץ H776 HTd/Ncbsa אָ֫רֶץ from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land): X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
7 הַ/זֹּאת֙ זֹאת H2063 HTd/Pdxfs זֹאת irregular feminine of שֶׂה; this (often used adverb): hereby (-in, -with), it, likewise, the one (other, same), she, so (much), such (deed), that, therefore, these, this (thing), thus.
8 לִ/נְפֹּ֣ל נָפַל H5307 HR/Vqc נָפַל a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative): be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for palal), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
9 בַּ/חֶ֔רֶב חָ֫רֶב H2719 HRd/Ncfsa חָ֫רֶב from חָרַב; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
10 נָשֵׁ֥י/נוּ נָשִׁים H802 HNcfpc/Sp1cp נָשִׁים feminine of אּישׁ or אֱנוֹשׁ; irregular plural nashiym; a woman (used in the same wide sense as אֱנוֹשׁ): (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
11 וְ/טַפֵּ֖/נוּ טָף H2945 HC/Ncmsc/Sp1cp טָף from טָפַף (perhaps referring to the tripping gait of children); a family (mostly used collectively in the singular): (little) children (ones), families.
12 יִהְי֣וּ הָיָה H1961 HVqi3mp הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
13 לָ/בַ֑ז בָּז H957 HR/Ncmsa בָּז from בָּזַז; plunder: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
14 הֲ/ל֧וֹא לֹא H3808 HTi/Tn לֹא or lowi; or loh (Deut. 3:11); a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles (as follows): X before, + or else, ere, + except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (X as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily, for want, + whether, without.
15 ט֦וֹב טוֹב H2896 HAamsa טוֹב from טוֹב; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well): beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
16 לָ֖/נוּ HR/Sp1cp
17 שׁ֥וּב שׁוּב H7725 HVqc שׁוּב a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
18 מִצְרָֽיְמָ/ה מִצְרָ֫יִם H4714 HNp/Sd מִצְרָ֫יִם dual of מָצוֹר; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.