What Does Numbers 5:6 Mean?

“Speak”

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

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto the children”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“When 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)

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

“or woman”

a woman

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

“shall commit”

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

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

“any sin”

an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender

“that men”

ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)

“commit”

properly, to cover up; used only figuratively, to act covertly, i.e., treacherously

“to do a trespass”

treachery, i.e., sin

“against the LORD”

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

“be guilty”

to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish

“and that person”

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

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