Deuteronomy 32:25

“Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.”

Deuteronomy 32:25 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Deuteronomy 32:25, word by word

Outsideחוּץchuts

outside

What lies outside the house, the city or the camp.

Where else “chuts” appears
the swordחֶרֶבcherev

sword

A sword; or war.

Where else “cherev” appears
will bereaveתְּשַׁכֶּלteshakel

bereave

To make someone lose his children, in war or as punishment.

Where else “teshakel” appears
and in the inner roomsחֲדָרִיםchadarim

inner room

Inner room, private chamber.

Where else “chadarim” appears
terrorאֵימָהema

terror

A great fear.

Where else “ema” appears
young manבָּחוּרbachur

young man

A young man in the fullness of his strength.

Where else “bachur” appears
virginבְּתוּלָהbetula

virgin

Young woman not yet married; virgin.

Where else “betula” appears
the nursing childיוֹנֵקyonek

suck

For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.

Where else “yonek” appears
the manאִישׁish

man

An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.

Where else “ish” appears
of gray hairשֵׂיבָהseva

old age, gray hair

Old age; gray hair.

Where else “seva” appears

The context

24Wasted by hunger, and devoured by burning fever and bitter plague; and the teeth of beasts I will send against them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.

25 · This verse (above)

26I would have said, “I will scatter them; I will make cease from humankind their memory,”

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