What Does Numbers 20:19 Mean?

“said”

to say (used with great latitude)

near, with or among; often in general, to

“And the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“by the high way”

a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase

“unto him We will go”

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not

“of thy water”

water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen

“drink”

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

i

“and if I and my cattle”

something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition

“then I will pay”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

merchandise; also value

properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“for it I will only without doing any thing”

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

“on my feet”

a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda

“else go through”

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in