What Does Numbers 30:2 Mean?

“If a man”

a 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)

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

“vow”

to promise (pos., to do or give something to god)

“a vow”

a promise (to god); also (concretely) a thing promised

“unto the LORD”

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

desire (and so probably in proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if

“or swear”

to seven oneself, i.e., swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

“an oath”

properly, something sworn, i.e., an oath

“to bind”

to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle

“with a bond”

an obligation or vow (of abstinence)

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“his soul”

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

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

“he shall not break”

properly, to bore, i.e., (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin

“his word”

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

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“according to all that proceedeth”

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim

“out of his mouth”

the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos

“he shall do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application