Numbers 16:21
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּדַל
bâdal
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עֵדָה
ʻêdâh
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
רֶגַע
regaʻ
a wink (of the eyes), i.e. a very short space of time
Key Terms in This Verse
בָּדַל bâdal
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
Study H914 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →עֵדָה ʻêdâh
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
Study H5712 →Cross References
Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments...
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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