King James Version
Numbers 30:13 in the King James Version says “Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.”
Numbers 30:13 · KJV
And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“to afflict”
H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
“the soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“her husband”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“may establish”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“her husband”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“may make it void”
H6565to break up (usually figuratively), i.e., to violate, frustrate
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