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Whenכִּיyou buildתִבְנֶהa newחָדָשׁhouse,בַּיִתyou shall makeוְעָשִׂיתָa parapetמַעֲקֶהfor your roof,לְגַגֶּךָso that you do notוְלֹאbringתָשִׂיםbloodguiltדָּמִיםon your houseבְּבֵיתֶךָifכִּיanyone fallingהַנֹּפֵלfallsיִפֹּלfrom it.מִמֶּנּוּ
Deuteronomy 22:8
Study it in the app“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falling falls from it.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 22:8, word by word
- you buildתִבְנֶהtivne
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “tivne” appears- a newחָדָשׁchadash
new
New.
Where else “chadash” appears- houseבַּיִתbayit
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bayit” appears- you shall makeעָשִׂיתָasita
make
To build or create something.
Where else “asita” appears- a parapetמַעֲקֶהmaake
parapet
Parapet: a low wall around the flat roof so that no one falls.
Where else “maake” appears- for your roofגַגֶּgage
roof, top
Roof, the flat top of a house; the top of something.
Where else “gage” appears- bringתָשִׂיםtasim
put
To put something somewhere.
Where else “tasim” appears- bloodguiltדָּמִיםdamim
bloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “damim” appears- anyone fallingנֹּפֵלnofel
fall
To fall to the ground, or for a city to fall.
Where else “nofel” appears
The context
7You shall surely send away the mother, and the young you may take for yourself, so that it may go well with you and you may prolong your days.
8 · This verse (above)
9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds, so that the whole yield, the seed that you sow and the produce of the vineyard, does not become holy.