Deuteronomy 25:3
King James Version
11 Jun 2026
“Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”
פֵּן
properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest
יָסַף
he should increase
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יָסַף
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
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נָכָה
he will strike/ him
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נָכָה
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
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רַב
much
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רַב
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
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מַכָּה
striking
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מַכָּה
a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
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