Deuteronomy 28:29
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָשַׁשׁ
mâshash
to feel of; by implication, to grope
צֹהַר
tsôhar
a light (i.e. window); dual double light, i.e. noon
עִוֵּר
ʻivvêr
blind (literally or figuratively)
מָשַׁשׁ
mâshash
to feel of; by implication, to grope
חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
צָלַח
tsâlach
to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
עָשַׁק
ʻâshaq
to press upon, i.e. oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
גָּזַל
gâzal
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
דּוֹר
dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
יָשַׁע
yâshaʻ
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
Key Terms in This Verse
דּוֹר dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Study H1755 →צָלַח tsâlach
to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
Study H6743 →חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Study H2822 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →Cross References
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but ...
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be c...
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distre...
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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