Leviticus 26:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

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בְּקֶ֑רִי

qᵉrîy

H7147

“in/at · opposition”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Leviticus 26:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7136

TWOT: 2068b

opposition, contrariness, encounter, contrary or hostile encounter

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

12: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּקֶ֑רִי opposition H7147 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בְּקֶ֑רִי opposition H7147 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 adjective
2 pronouns
2 prepositions
3 particles

Verb forms

וְהָלַכְתִּ֧י Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְהִכֵּיתִ֤י Hiphil · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֲנִ֛י I H589 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Leviticus 26:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psalms 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Job 9:4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Leviticus 26:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהָלַכְתִּ֧י אַף אֲנִ֛י עִמָּכֶ֖ם בְּקֶ֑רִי וְהִכֵּיתִ֤י אֶתְכֶם֙ גַּם אָ֔נִי שֶׁ֖בַע עַל חַטֹּאתֵיכֶֽם

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 26:24 Septuagint · lemma form

πορεύομαι καΐἐγώ μετά σύ θυμός πλάγιος καί πατάσσω σύ καΐἐγώ ἑπτάκις ἀντί ὁ ἁμαρτία σύ

I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְאֵהַךְ אַף אֲנָא עִמְכוֹן בְּקַשְׁיוּ וְאַלְקֵי יָתְכוֹן אַף אֲנָא שְׁבַע עַל חוֹבֵיכוֹן

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וְאִידַבֵּר אוּף אֲנָא יַתְכוֹן בְּעַרְאַי בְּעַלְמָא וְאֶמְחֵי יַתְכוֹן לְחוֹד אֲנָא שְׁבַע מָחָן עַל שְׁבַע עֲבֵירָן דִי חֲטִיתוּן קֳדָמָי

I will Myself also remember you adversely in the world, and will destroy you, even I, with seven plagues, for seven transgressions with which ye have sinned before Me.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Leviticus 26:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Ver. 24. Then will I also walk contrary.] God will be as froward as they for the hearts of them. {Psa 18:20} He will wry with them; neither may they look to get anything of him by wriggling and wrestling.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Lev 26:24. I will walk contrary to you — Hebrews I will walk with you by chance; an Hebraism, importing that God would seem to leave their affairs in apparent disorder, as if they were no more the objects of his providential care. To those who regard not the operation of God’s hands, he appears unconcerned about human affairs; but those who have spiritual discernment, and understand the secret ways of providence, will see reason to believe that there is a spirit within, full of eyes, which guides and directs the wheels of that vast machine, even where others discern nothing but irregularity and confusion.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) Then will I also walk contrary unto you.—By their increased hostility to God, they simply increase their calamities, since He whom they are defying now also assumes a hostile attitude towards those who are defiant.

And will punish you yet.—Better, and I also will smite you. (See Lev_26:28.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And I will bring a sword upon you,.... War upon them by the sword of their enemies; they that use and kill with the sword, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; their neighbours that delighted in war, and bore an implacable, hatred unto them, and gladly embraced every opportunity of shedding their blood, and ravaging their country:

that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant; the covenant made with them at Sinai, which they transgressed, and for which vengeance would be taken on them in this way, God so ordering it in his providence, though the enemy meant it not, Isa 10:5,

and when ye are gathered together within your cities; from the fields and villages, fleeing from the enemy invading and destroying, to their fortified towns and cities for safety:

I will send the pestilence among you; which shall destroy those that escaped the sword, and thought themselves safe in a strong city, and even the very soldiers in the garrisons, who were set for the defence of the city:

and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy; so many being taken off by the pestilence, there would not be a sufficient number to defend the place, and therefore obliged to give it up, by which means those that escaped the pestilence would fall into the hands of the enemy.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Contrary unto you, or, carelessly with you or towards you, i.e. I will put you out of my care and protection.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qᵉrîy (“opposition”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “opposition” (qᵉrîy) shape what this verse is saying?
Leviticus 26:21 shares the word «opposition» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“I” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וְהָלַכְתִּ֧י» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 15 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
“I” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.