Numbers 14:29

“In this wilderness your corpses shall fall, and all of you who were counted in all your number, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,”
Numbers 14:29 · direct translation from the Hebrew

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In thisבַּ הַזֶּהwildernessמִּדְבָּרyour corpsesפִגְרֵיכֶםshall fall,יִפְּלוּandוְallכָלof you who were countedפְּקֻדֵיכֶםin allלְכָלyour number,מִסְפַּרְכֶםfromמִtwentyבֶּן עֶשְׂרִיםyears oldשָׁנָהandוָupward,מָעְלָהwhoאֲשֶׁרhave grumbledהֲלִינֹתֶםagainst me,עָלָי

Allusion · Hebrews 3:17

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Both texts say that the corpses of those who sinned fell in the wilderness.

They share words that are rare in the original, without a quotation.

פִגְרֵיfigreH6297κῶλαkōlaG2966“dead body, corpse”
יִפְּלוּyipluH5307ἔπεσενepesenG4098“fall; decline”
מִּדְבָּרmidbarH4057ἐρήμῳerēmōiG2048“wilderness”

Numbers 14:29, word by word

wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar

wilderness

Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.

Where else “midbar” appears

your corpsesפִגְרֵיfigre

carcass, corpse

Dead body, carcass, of a person or an animal.

Where else “figre” appears

shall fallיִפְּלוּyiplu

fall in battle

To die in battle, killed by the enemy.

Where else “yiplu” appears

of you who were countedפְּקֻדֵיpekude

count

To list a people, how many there are.

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your numberמִסְפַּרְmispar

number

The amount that results from counting: how many there are.

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twentyבֶּןben

years old

To give someone's age, how long they have lived.

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twentyעֶשְׂרִיםesrim

twenty

Twenty; also "twentieth".

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years oldשָׁנָהshana

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

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upwardמָעְלָmala

above

Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".

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have grumbledהֲלִינֹתֶםhalinotem

grumble

To complain in a low voice against someone, in discontent.

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The context

28Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares YHWH, just as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

29 · This verse (above)

30you shall not come into the land where I raised my hand to settle you in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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