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Numbers 15

Num. 15:31 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Because he hath despised
bazah (Hebrew #959)
to disesteem
KJV usage: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), + think to scorn, vile person.
Pronounce: baw-zaw'
Origin: a primitive root
thed word
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and hath broken
parar (Hebrew #6565)
to break up (usually figuratively, i.e. to violate, frustrate
KJV usage: X any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, X clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, X utterly, make void.
Pronounce: paw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
his commandment
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
, that soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
shall utterly
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
be cut off
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
; his iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
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2 Sam. 12:9• 9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Jehovah, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. (2 Sam. 12:9)
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Prov. 13:13• 13Whoso despiseth the word destroyeth himself;{HR}But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. (Prov. 13:13)
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Acts 13:41• 41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you. (Acts 13:41)
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Heb. 10:28‑29• 28Anyone if he set at nought Moses' law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
 29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb. 10:28‑29)
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Lev. 5:1• 1And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of an oath, and he is a witness whether he hath seen or known, if he do not inform, then he shall bear his iniquity. (Lev. 5:1)
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Psa. 38:4• 4For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)
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Ezek. 18:20• 20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. (Ezek. 18:20)
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2 Peter 2:21• 21For it were better for them not to have known well the way of righteousness than knowing well to have turned back from the holy commandment delivered to them. (2 Peter 2:21)

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despised.
Lev. 26:15,43• 15and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
 43For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because, they despised my judgments, and their soul despised my statutes. (Lev. 26:15,43)
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2 Sam. 12:9• 9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Jehovah, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. (2 Sam. 12:9)
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Psa. 119:126• 126[It is] time for Jehovah to act:{HR}They make void thy law. (Psa. 119:126)
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Prov. 13:13• 13Whoso despiseth the word destroyeth himself;{HR}But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. (Prov. 13:13)
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Isa. 30:12• 12Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon, (Isa. 30:12)
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1 Thess. 4:8• 8Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you. (1 Thess. 4:8)
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Heb. 10:28‑29• 28Anyone if he set at nought Moses' law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
 29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb. 10:28‑29)
his iniquity.
Lev. 5:1• 1And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of an oath, and he is a witness whether he hath seen or known, if he do not inform, then he shall bear his iniquity. (Lev. 5:1)
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Psa. 38:4• 4For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)
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Isa. 53:6• 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)
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Ezek. 18:20• 20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. (Ezek. 18:20)
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1 Peter 2:24• 24who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
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2 Peter 2:21• 21For it were better for them not to have known well the way of righteousness than knowing well to have turned back from the holy commandment delivered to them. (2 Peter 2:21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him.

W. Kelly Translation

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For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)