The Meaning of Numbers 14:32 Explained

Numbers 14:32

KJV: But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

YLT: as to you -- your carcases do fall in this wilderness,

Darby: And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

ASV: But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But [as for] you, your carcases,  they shall fall  in this wilderness. 

What does Numbers 14:32 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 14:26-45 - The Penalty Of Unbelief And Rashness
The old translation in Numbers 14:34 was unfortunate. "Breach of promise" is rendered in r.v. "my alienation." It is still better to notice the marginal reading, "the revoking of my promise." But even this hardly gives us the true meaning of the words, which teach us that God's promises are conditional on our faith. He cannot do what we fail to trust Him to do.
The key of faith will unlock every drawer and cupboard in the divine treasury, but we must use it. If we will not trust God with our life we shall be left to perish in the wilderness of drought, of restlessness and of peril. Unbelief paralyzes God's arm. See Matthew 13:58, And let us learn from the closing paragraph that the might of our own right hand will never avail to accomplish what is forfeited by unbelief. "It shall not prosper." [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 14

1  The people murmur at the news
6  Joshua and Caleb labor to still them
11  God threatens them
13  Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon
26  The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land
36  The men who raised the evil report die by a plague
40  The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten

What do the individual words in Numbers 14:32 mean?

But [as for] your carcasses you shall fall in wilderness this
וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֑ם יִפְּל֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּֽה

וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם  But  [as  for]  your  carcasses 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: פֶּגֶר  
Sense: corpse, carcass, monument, stela.
יִפְּל֖וּ  shall  fall 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: נָפַל  
Sense: to fall, lie, be cast down, fail.
בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר  in  wilderness 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מִדְבָּר 
Sense: wilderness.
הַזֶּֽה  this 
Parse: Article, Pronoun, masculine singular
Root: זֶה  
Sense: this, this one, here, which, this … that, the one … the other, another, such.

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