What Does Numbers 21:5 Mean?

“spake”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

“And the people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“against God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

“and against Moses”

mosheh, the israelite lawgiver

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

“Wherefore have ye brought us up”

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

“out of Egypt”

mitsrajim, i.e., upper and lower egypt

“to die”

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

“in the wilderness”

a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“bread”

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“neither is there any water”

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

“and our soul”

properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment

“loatheth”

to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious

“bread”

food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)

“this light”

insubstantial