King James Version
Numbers 32:12 in the King James Version says “Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.”
Numbers 32:12 · KJV
And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: wholly: Heb. fulfilled after me
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for they have wholly”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“followed”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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