Numbers 16:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Jehovah, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּ֤חַר לְמֹשֶׁה֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה אַל־תֵּ֖פֶן אֶל־מִנְחָתָ֑ם לֹ֠א חֲמ֨וֹר אֶחָ֤ד מֵהֶם֙ נָשָׂ֔אתִי וְלֹ֥א הֲרֵעֹ֖תִי אֶת־אַחַ֥ד מֵהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wayyiḥar to-Mōšeh very, and wayyōʾmer to-YHWH, do-not-tēpen to-their-minḥātām; not ḥămôr one from-them nāśāʾtî, and-not hărēʿōtî ʾet-one from-them

Grammar Details

• *wayyiḥar*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it became hot/angry
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Moses
• *wayyōʾmer*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *tēpen*: Qal imperfect jussive, 2nd masculine singular - may you regard/turn to
• *minḥātām*: noun, feminine singular construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their offering/gift
• *ḥămôr*: noun, masculine singular - donkey
• *nāśāʾtî*: Qal perfect, 1st common singular - I have taken/carried
• *hărēʿōtî*: Hiphil perfect, 1st common singular - I have done harm
• *ʾet*: direct object marker

Word Meanings

• *wayyiḥar*: became angry/was kindled
• *tēpen*: regard/turn to/respect
• *minḥātām*: their offering/gift/tribute
• *nāśāʾtî*: I have taken/lifted/carried away

Referenced Verses

• Gen 4:4-5 : 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
• 2 Cor 7:2 : 2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
• 2 Cor 12:14-17 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? 16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
• Eph 4:26 : 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
• 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
• Exod 32:19 : 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
• Num 12:3 : 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.
• Num 16:6-7 : 6 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; 7 and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Jehovah to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Jehovah doth choose, he [shall be] holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
• 1 Sam 12:3-4 : 3 Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. 4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
• Isa 1:10-15 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,— I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Matt 5:22 : 22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.
• Acts 20:33-34 : 33 I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
• 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, {G2570} than that any man should make my glorifying void.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.