Numbers 5:14

“and a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, and she has made herself unclean; or a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not made herself unclean,”

Numbers 5:14 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Numbers 5:14, word by word

and a spiritרוּחַruach

spirit

What moves a person inside: their life, their mood.

Where else “ruach” appears
of jealousyקִנְאָהkina

jealousy

A husband's burning that tolerates no rivals; so is YHWH with his people.

Where else “kina” appears
comesעָבַרavar

pass

To get over a river, or go through a land.

Where else “avar” appears
and he is jealousקִנֵּאkine

be jealous

To feel bitterness because another has what one would like.

Where else “kine” appears
of his wifeאִשְׁתּisht

wife

Literally "his woman": the one married to him.

Where else “isht” appears
has made herself uncleanנִטְמָאָהnitmaa

be unclean

To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.

Where else “nitmaa” appears

The context

13and a man lies with her with emission of semen, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she has made herself unclean in secret, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught,

14 · This verse (above)

15then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

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