The Meaning of Numbers 30:9 Explained

Numbers 30:9

KJV: But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

YLT: 'As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

Darby: But the vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, everything wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand against her.

ASV: But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But every vow  of a widow,  and of her that is divorced,  wherewith they have bound  their souls,  shall stand  against her. 

What does Numbers 30:9 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Numbers 30

1  Vows are not to be broken
3  The exceptions of a maid's vows
6  Of a wife's
9  Of a widow's or her that is divorced

What do the individual words in Numbers 30:9 mean?

And vow of a widow or a divorced woman any by which she has bound upon herself shall stand against her
וְנֵ֥דֶר אַלְמָנָ֖ה וּגְרוּשָׁ֑ה כֹּ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־ אָסְרָ֥ה עַל־ נַפְשָׁ֖הּ יָק֥וּם עָלֶֽיהָ

וְנֵ֥דֶר  And  vow 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: נֵדֶר  
Sense: vow, votive offering.
אַלְמָנָ֖ה  of  a  widow 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אַלְמָנָה  
Sense: widow.
וּגְרוּשָׁ֑ה  or  a  divorced  woman 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, feminine singular
Root: גָּרַשׁ 
Sense: to drive out, expel, cast out, drive away, divorce, put away, thrust away, trouble, cast up.
כֹּ֛ל  any 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
אֲשֶׁר־  by  which 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
אָסְרָ֥ה  she  has  bound 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אָסַר  
Sense: to tie, bind, imprison.
עַל־  upon 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
נַפְשָׁ֖הּ  herself 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
יָק֥וּם  shall  stand 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: קוּם 
Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.
עָלֶֽיהָ  against  her 
Parse: Preposition, third person feminine singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.

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