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shall notאִםseeיִרְאוּthe landאֶת הָאָרֶץthatאֲשֶׁרI sworeנִשְׁבַּעְתִּיto their fathers;לַאֲבֹתָםandוְnoneלֹאof those who spurnכָל מְנַאֲצַmeיshall seeיִרְאוּit.הָ
Numbers 14:23
Study it in the app“shall not see the land that I swore to their fathers; and none of those who spurn me shall see it.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 14:23, word by word
- seeיִרְאוּyiru
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “yiru” appears- the landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- I sworeנִשְׁבַּעְתִּיnishbati
swear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishbati” appears- to their fathersאֲבֹתָavota
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avota” appears- of those who spurnמְנַאֲצַmenaatsa
despise
To turn away with scorn, as from YHWH.
Where else “menaatsa” appears
Translation note
The Letter to the Hebrews uses this story to warn against unbelief (Hebrews 3:16-19).
The context
22that all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not listened to my voice,
23 · This verse (above)
24But my servant Caleb, because there was a different spirit in him and he has followed me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he went, and his offspring shall possess it.