Leviticus 19:28

Geneva Bible (1560)

Ye shal not cut your flesh for the dead, nor make any print of a marke vpon you: I am the Lorde,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשֶׂ֣רֶט לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וּכְתֹ֣בֶת קֽ͏ַעֲקַ֔ע לֹ֥א תִתְּנ֖וּ בָּכֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

wə-śereṭ lanepeš lōʾ ṯittənû biḇśarḵem û-ḵəṯōḇeṯ qaʿăqaʿ lōʾ ṯittənû bāḵem ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-śereṭ*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and cutting
• *lanepeš*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - for the dead/soul
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ṯittənû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall make/put
• *biḇśarḵem*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine plural suffix - in your flesh
• *û-ḵəṯōḇeṯ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and writing/marking of
• *qaʿăqaʿ*: noun, masculine singular - tattoo/incision/imprint
• *bāḵem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - in you
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD

Word Meanings

• *śereṭ* *lanepeš*: cutting for the dead/incision for a soul/ritual cutting for mourning
• *ḵəṯōḇeṯ* *qaʿăqaʿ*: tattoo marking/permanent writing/indelible inscription

Referenced Verses

• Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.
• 1 Kgs 18:28 : 28 And they cryed loude, and cut them selues as their maner was, with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.
• Jer 16:6 : 6 Both the great, and the smal shal die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them nor cut themselues, nor make themselues balde for them.
• Jer 48:37 : 37 For euery head shalbe balde, and euery beard plucked: vpon all the handes shall be cuttings, and vpon the loynes sackecloth.
• Lev 21:5 : 5 They shall not make balde partes vpon their head, nor shaue off the locks of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
• Lev 21:1 : 1 And the Lorde said vnto Moses, Speake vnto the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron, and say vnto them, Let none be defiled by the dead among his people,
• Rev 15:2 : 2 And I sawe as it were a glassie sea, mingled with fire, and them that had gotten victorie of the beast, and of his image, and of his marke, and of the number of his name, stand at the glassie sea, hauing the harpes of God,
• Rev 16:2 : 2 And the first went & powred out his viall vpon the earth: and there fell a noysome, & a grieuous sore vpon the men, which had the marke of ye beast, and vpon them which worshipped his image.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 But ye beast was taken, & with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, whereby he deceiued them that receiued ye beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were aliue cast into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
• Rev 20:4 : 4 And I sawe seates: & they sate vpon them, & iudgement was giuen vnto them, & I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnes of Iesus, and for the word of God, & which did not worship the beast, neither his image, neither had taken his marke vpon their foreheads, or on their handes: and they liued, & reigned with Christ a thousand yeere.
• Mark 5:5 : 5 And alwayes both night and day he cryed in the mountaines, and in the graues, and strooke himselfe with stones.
• Rev 13:16-17 : 16 And he made all, both small and great, rich and poore, free and bond, to receiue a marke in their right hand or in their foreheads, 17 And that no man might buy or sell, saue hee that had the marke, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
• Rev 14:9 : 9 And the third Angel followed them, saying with a loude voyce, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receiue his marke in his forehead, or on his hand,
• Rev 14:11 : 11 And the smoke of their torment shall ascend euermore: and they shal haue no rest day nor night, which worship the beast and his image, and whosoeuer receiueth the print of his name.