What Does Numbers 5:13 Mean?

“lie”

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

“And 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)

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

“with her carnally”

a lying down (of dew, or for the sexual act)

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

“and it be hid”

to veil from sight, i.e., conceal (literally or figuratively)

“from the eyes”

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

“And 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)

“and be kept close”

to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“and she be defiled”

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

“and there be no witness”

concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e., prince

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

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

“against her neither she be taken”

to manipulate, i.e., seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably