The Meaning of Numbers 32:14 Explained

Numbers 32:14

KJV: And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

YLT: And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men -- sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

Darby: And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

ASV: And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers'stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And, behold, ye are risen up  in your fathers'  stead, an increase  of sinful  men,  to augment  yet the fierce  anger  of the LORD  toward Israel. 

What does Numbers 32:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 32:1-19 - Seeking Inheritance Beyond Jordan
Reuben and Gad were contiguous to each other when the host encamped. They had, therefore, many opportunities for conference, and finally united in asking permission to settle on the east of Jordan, where vast tracks of pasturage were eminently suited to their flocks. They have been held up as types of those whose "much cattle" hinder the realization to the full of the heavenly inheritance. Certainly many professing Christians live on the world's side of the Cross. They have no desire to share in the crucifixion of the self-life, if only they may build sheepcotes and cities and provide for their little ones. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than"¦."
At first Moses was indignant at the request, thinking that they desired to evade the hardships, but their explanation modified his wrath. Be swift to hear, slow to speak! [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 32

1  The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
6  Moses reproves them
16  They offer him conditions with which he is content
33  Moses assigns them the land
39  They conquer it

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

and look You have risen place in your father's a brood of men sinful to increase still more on the fierce anger of Yahweh against Israel
וְהִנֵּ֣ה קַמְתֶּ֗ם תַּ֚חַת אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם תַּרְבּ֖וּת אֲנָשִׁ֣ים חַטָּאִ֑ים לִסְפּ֣וֹת ע֗וֹד עַ֛ל חֲר֥וֹן אַף־ יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

וְהִנֵּ֣ה  and  look 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Interjection
Root: הִנֵּה  
Sense: behold, lo, see, if.
קַמְתֶּ֗ם  You  have  risen 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, second person masculine plural
Root: קוּם 
Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.
תַּ֚חַת  place 
Parse: Preposition
Root: מִתְחָה 
Sense: the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas.
אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם  in  your  father's 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
תַּרְבּ֖וּת  a  brood 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: תַּרְבּוּת  
Sense: increase, brood, progeny, offspring.
אֲנָשִׁ֣ים  of  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֱנׄושׁ 
Sense: man, mortal man, person, mankind.
חַטָּאִ֑ים  sinful 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural
Root: חַטָּא  
Sense: sinners adj.
לִסְפּ֣וֹת  to  increase 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: סָפָה  
Sense: to sweep or snatch away, catch up, destroy, consume.
ע֗וֹד  still  more 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
חֲר֥וֹן  the  fierce 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: חָרֹון  
Sense: anger, heat, burning (of anger).
אַף־  anger 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.
יְהוָ֖ה  of  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: Jehovah—used primarily in the combination ‘Lord Jehovah’.
אֶל־  against 
Parse: Preposition
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.