Numbers 5:28

“But if the woman has not made herself unclean, and she is clean, she shall be free and shall conceive offspring.”

Numbers 5:28 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Numbers 5:28, word by word

the womanאִשָּׁהisha

woman

An adult female person: single, married or widowed.

Where else “isha” appears
made herself uncleanנִטְמְאָהnitma

be unclean

To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.

Where else “nitma” appears
is cleanטְהֹרָהtehora

clean

Fit under the law for worship, without stain.

Where else “tehora” appears
she shall be freeנִקְּתָהnikta

be free

To find oneself free of the burden of a promise or a guilt.

Where else “nikta” appears
and shall conceiveנִזְרְעָהnizra

conceive

Of a woman: to conceive a child in her womb.

Where else “nizra” appears
offspringזָרַעzara

offspring

The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.

Where else “zara” appears

The context

27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be that if she has made herself unclean and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse shall enter into her to become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh sag, and the woman shall become an imprecation among her people.

28 · This verse (above)

29This is the instruction for jealousy, when a wife, while under the authority of her husband, goes astray and makes herself unclean,

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