Deuteronomy 28:22

“YHWH will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.”

Deuteronomy 28:22 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Deuteronomy 28:22, word by word

YHWHיְהוָהyehva

YHWH

The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.

Where else “yehva” appears
will strike youיַכְּyak

punish

God punishes with a plague.

Where else “yak” appears
with consumptionשַּׁחֶפֶתshachefet

wasting disease

A disease that wastes the body away.

Where else “shachefet” appears
with feverקַּדַּחַתkadachat

fever

Burning fever.

Where else “kadachat” appears
with inflammationדַּלֶּקֶתdaleket

inflammation, fever

Inflammation, a burning fever.

Where else “daleket” appears
with fiery heatחַרְחֻרcharchur

fever, heat

Heat of a very high fever.

Where else “charchur” appears
with the swordחֶרֶבcherev

sword

A sword; or war.

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with blightשִּׁדָּפוֹןshidafon

blight

A plague that scorches and dries the grain.

Where else “shidafon” appears
and with mildewיֵּרָקוֹןyerakon

mildew

A disease that turns plants yellow.

Where else “yerakon” appears
and they will pursue youרְדָפוּredafu

pursue

To go after someone to catch them.

Where else “redafu” appears
you perishאָבְדֶavde

perish

To die, be ruined.

Where else “avde” appears

Translation note

“Blight” and “mildew” are damage to the crops: grain scorched by the dry wind, and the ear that turns yellow and does not ripen.

The context

21YHWH will make the pestilence cling to you until he has consumed you from off the ground that you are entering there to possess it.

22 · This verse (above)

23And your heavens that are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you iron.

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