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Deuteronomy 22:21 — King James Version← Study notes

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.


Deuteronomy 22:21Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Deuteronomy 22:2123 words
וְהוֹצִיאוּwəhwōṣîʾûAnd go
אֶתʾet
הנערhnʿrThe girl
הַנַּעֲרָהhanaʿărāhThe girl
אֶלʾelNear
פֶּתַחpetaḥOpening
בֵּיתbêtA house
אָבִיהָʾāvîhāFather
וּסְקָלוּהָûsəqālûhāAnd be weighty
אַנְשֵׁיʾanəšêMan
עִירָהּʿîrāhCity
בָּאֲבָנִיםbāʾăvānîmIn stone
וָמֵתָהwāmētāhAnd die
כִּיRelative conjunction
עָשְׂתָהʿāśətāhDo
נְבָלָהnəvālāhFoolishness
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵלbəyiśərāʾēlIn he will rule as God
לִזְנוֹתlizənwōtTo commit adultery
בֵּיתbêtA house
אָבִיהָʾāvîhāFather
וּבִעַרְתָּûviʿarətāAnd kindle
הָרָעhārāʿThe bad
מִקִּרְבֶּךָmiqirəbeḵāFrom nearest
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וְהוֹצִיאוּwəhwōṣîʾûAnd go
אֶתʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
הנערhnʿrThe girl
הַנַּעֲרָהhanaʿărāhThe girl
אֶלʾelNear
פֶּתַחpetaḥOpening
בֵּיתbêtA house
אָבִיהָʾāvîhāFather
וּסְקָלוּהָûsəqālûhāAnd be weighty
אַנְשֵׁיʾanəšêMan
עִירָהּʿîrāhCity
בָּאֲבָנִיםbāʾăvānîmIn stone
וָמֵתָהwāmētāhAnd die
כִּיRelative conjunction
עָשְׂתָהʿāśətāhDo
נְבָלָהnəvālāhFoolishness
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵלbəyiśərāʾēlIn he will rule as God
לִזְנוֹתlizənwōtTo commit adultery
בֵּיתbêtA house
אָבִיהָʾāvîhāFather
וּבִעַרְתָּûviʿarətāAnd kindle
הָרָעhārāʿThe bad
מִקִּרְבֶּךָmiqirəbeḵāFrom nearest

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