Study it in the app“not to many peoples of obscure speech and heavy tongue, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would listen to you.”
notלֹאto manyאֶל רַבִּיםpeoplesעַמִּיםof obscureעִמְקֵיspeechשָׂפָהand heavyוְכִבְדֵיtongue,לָשׁוֹןwhoseאֲשֶׁר הֶםwordsדִּבְרֵיyou cannotלֹאunderstand.תִשְׁמַעSurely,אִם לֹאhad I sent youשְׁלַחְתִּיךָto them,אֲלֵיהֶםtheyהֵמָּהwould listenיִשְׁמְעוּto you.אֵלֶיךָ
many
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rabim” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “amim” appearsobscure
Hard to understand: strange speech.
Where else “imke” appearslanguage
The tongue proper to a people, the language it speaks.
Where else “safa” appearsslow
Clumsy and slow of speech, as if the tongue were heavy.
Where else “chivde” appearstongue
The organ in the mouth used to taste and speak; hence, what one says.
Where else “lashon” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appearslisten
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “tishma” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “shelachti” appears5For not to a people of obscure speech and heavy tongue are you sent, but to the house of Israel;
6 · This verse (above)
7But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me; for all the house of Israel, they are hard of forehead and hard of heart.
