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Numbers 5:27

When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

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ASV

And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

KJV

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

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23 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהִשְׁקָ֣הּve.hish.Kahand he will make drink herH8248 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַמַּ֗יִםha.Ma.yimthe watersH4325 →
וְהָיְתָ֣הve.ha.ye.Tahand she will beH1961 →
אִֽם־'im-ifH518 →
נִטְמְאָה֮nit.me.'Ahshe has made herself uncleanH2930 →
וַתִּמְעֹ֣לva.tim.'Oland she has acted unfaithfullyH4603 →
מַ֣עַלMa.'alunfaithfulnessH4604 →
בְּאִישָׁהּ֒be.'i.Shahagainst husband herH376 →
וּבָ֨אוּu.Va.'uand they will goH935 →
בָ֜הּvahin <the> her
הַמַּ֤יִםha.Ma.yimthe watersH4325 →
הַמְאָֽרֲרִים֙ham.'a.ra.Rimwhich bring a curseH779 →
לְמָרִ֔יםle.ma.Rimto bitter [things]H4751 →
וְצָבְתָ֣הve.tza.ve.Tahand it will swellH6638 →
בִטְנָ֔הּvit.Nahbelly herH990 →
וְנָפְלָ֖הve.na.fe.Lahand it will fallH5307 →
יְרֵכָ֑הּye.re.Khahthigh herH3409 →
וְהָיְתָ֧הve.ha.ye.Tahand she will becomeH1961 →
הָאִשָּׁ֛הha.'i.Shahthe womanH802 →
לְאָלָ֖הle.'a.Lah<into> a curseH423 →
בְּקֶ֥רֶבbe.Ke.revin [the] midst ofH7130 →
עַמָּֽהּ׃'a.Mahpeople herH5971 →

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Jeremiah 29:18I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.Zechariah 8:13As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”Jeremiah 42:18For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’Numbers 5:20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—Jeremiah 29:22Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.Jeremiah 44:12And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.Numbers 5:22May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’Proverbs 5:11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,2 Peter 2:10Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.Hebrews 10:26–30If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,Psalms 83:9–11Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,Romans 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.Proverbs 5:4–11in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.2 Corinthians 2:16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

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