Study it in the app“According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall bear your iniquities, forty years, and you shall know my opposition.”
According to the numberבְּמִסְפַּרof the daysהַיָּמִיםthatאֲשֶׁרyou exploredתַּרְתֶּםthe land,אֶת הָאָרֶץfortyאַרְבָּעִיםdays,יוֹםa dayיוֹםfor a year,לַשָּׁנָהa dayיוֹםfor a year,לַשָּׁנָהyou shall bearתִּשְׂאוּyour iniquities,אֶת עֲוֺנֹתֵיכֶםfortyאַרְבָּעִיםyears,שָׁנָהand you shall knowוִידַעְתֶּםmy opposition.אֶת תְּנוּאָתִי
number
The amount that results from counting: how many there are.
Where else “mispar” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearsexplore
To go through a land to learn about it.
Where else “tartem” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsforty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appearsbear
To bear the consequences of a fault, like someone carrying a weight.
Where else “tisu” appearsiniquity
A serious wrong.
Where else “avonote” appearsknow a person
To know someone.
Where else “ydatem” appearsopposition
Turning against someone and away from him.
Where else “tenuati” appears33And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your acts of prostitution until the last of your corpses lies in the wilderness.
34 · This verse (above)
35I, YHWH, have spoken; surely this I will do to all this evil community that has gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to an end, and there they shall die.”
