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Ifכִּיyou turn awayתְשׁוּבֻןfrom following him,מֵאַחֲרָיוhe will againוְיָסַף עוֹדleave themלְהַנִּיחוֹin the wilderness,בַּמִּדְבָּרand you will destroyוְשִׁחַתֶּםallלְכָלthisהַזֶּהpeople.”הָעָם
Numbers 32:15
Study it in the app“If you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 32:15, word by word
- you turn awayתְשׁוּבֻteshuvu
turn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “teshuvu” appears- he will againיָסַףyasaf
do again
To do again what had already been done.
Where else “yasaf” appears- leave themהַנִּיחhanich
leave
To leave something where it is and not take it away; not to hinder.
Where else “hanich” appears- in the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- and you will destroyשִׁחַתֶּםshichatem
destroy
To ruin something completely, until it no longer exists or no longer serves.
Where else “shichatem” appears- peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears
The context
14And look, you have risen in place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of YHWH against Israel.
15 · This verse (above)
16They came near to him and said, “We will build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.