What Does Numbers 14:3 Mean?

properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and

“And wherefore hath the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“brought”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“us unto this land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

this (often used adverb)

“to fall”

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

“by the sword”

drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement

“that our wives”

a woman

“and our children”

a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“should be a prey”

plunder

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“were it not better”

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good

“for us to return”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“into Egypt”

mitsrajim, i.e., upper and lower egypt