Numbers 20:4
Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
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ASV
And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?
KJV
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
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12 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְלָמָ֤ה | ve.la.Mah | and <to> why? | H4100 → |
| הֲבֵאתֶם֙ | ha.ve.Tem | have you brought | H935 → |
| אֶת־ | 'et- | <obj.> | H853 → |
| קְהַ֣ל | ke.Hal | [the] assembly of | H6951 → |
| יְהוָ֔ה | Yah.weh | Yahweh | H3068 → |
| אֶל־ | 'el- | into | H413 → |
| הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר | ha.mid.Bar | the wilderness | H4057 → |
| הַזֶּ֑ה | ha.Zeh | <the> this | H2088 → |
| לָמ֣וּת | la.Mut | to die | H4191 → |
| שָׁ֔ם | Sham | there | H8033 → |
| אֲנַ֖חְנוּ | 'a.Nach.nu | we | H587 → |
| וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ׃ | u.ve.'i.Re.nu | and livestock our | H1165 → |
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