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Deuteronomy 22

Deut. 22:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When thou buildest
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
a new
chadash (Hebrew #2319)
new
KJV usage: fresh, new thing.
Pronounce: khaw-dawsh'
Origin: from 2318
house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, then thou shalt make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
a battlement
ma`aqeh (Hebrew #4624)
a parapet
KJV usage: battlement.
Pronounce: mah-ak-eh'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to repress
for thy roof
gag (Hebrew #1406)
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
KJV usage: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
Pronounce: gawg
Origin: probably by reduplication from 1342
h, that thou bring
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
not blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
upon thine house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, if any man
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
from thence.
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Isa. 22:1• 1The burden of the valley of vision. (Isa. 22:1)
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Jer. 19:13• 13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. (Jer. 19:13)
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Matt. 10:27• 27{i}What I say to you in darkness speak in the light, and what ye hear in the ear preach upon the houses.{/i} (Matt. 10:27)

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Cross References

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then thou shalt.The eastern houses being built with flat roofs, which were used for various purposed, as walking, sleeping, etc., it was therefore necessary to have a sort of battlement, or balustrade, to prevent accidents, by people falling off.
Ex. 21:28‑36• 28{i}And if an ox gore a man or a woman, so that they die, then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be guiltless.{/i}
 29{i}But if the ox have gored heretofore, and it have been testified to its owner, and he have not kept it in, and it kill a man or a woman, —the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.{/i}
 30{i}If there be imposed on him a satisfaction, then he shall give the ransom of his life, according to what is imposed on him.{/i}
 31{i}Whether it gore a son or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him.{/i}
 32{i}If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.{/i}
 33{i}—And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall into it,{/i}
 34{i}the owner of the pit shall make it good, shall give money to the owner of them; and the dead ox shall be his.{/i}
 35{i}—And if one man's ox gore his neighbour's ox, and it die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money thereof, and divide the dead also.{/i}
 36{i}Or if it be known that the ox have gored heretofore, and its owner have not kept him in, he shall in any case restore ox for ox; and the dead shall be his.{/i} (Ex. 21:28‑36)
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Ex. 22:6• 6{i}—If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.{/i} (Ex. 22:6)
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Rom. 14:13• 13Let us then no longer judge one another, but judge ye this rather, not to set an occasion of stumbling or offence for one's brother. (Rom. 14:13)
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1 Cor. 10:32• 32Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews or Greeks, or to the assembly of God; (1 Cor. 10:32)
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Phil. 1:10• 10that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense against [the] day of Christ, (Phil. 1:10)
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1 Thess. 5:22• 22abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thess. 5:22)
thy roof.
2 Sam. 11:2• 2{i}And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;{/i} (2 Sam. 11:2)
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Isa. 22:1• 1The burden of the valley of vision. (Isa. 22:1)
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Jer. 19:13• 13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. (Jer. 19:13)
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Matt. 10:27• 27{i}What I say to you in darkness speak in the light, and what ye hear in the ear preach upon the houses.{/i} (Matt. 10:27)
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Mark 2:4• 4And when they could not come near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was; and when they had dug it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay. (Mark 2:4)
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Acts 10:9• 9And on the morrow, when they were journeying and drawing near to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray about [the] sixth hour; (Acts 10:9)
thou bring.
Ezek. 3:18,20• 18{i}When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i}
 20{i}And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i} (Ezek. 3:18,20)
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Ezek. 32:2‑9• 2Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas; and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
 3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
 4Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
 5And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
 6I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
 7And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
 8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 9I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. (Ezek. 32:2‑9)
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Matt. 18:6‑7• 6{i}But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.{/i}
 7{i}Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!{/i} (Matt. 18:6‑7)
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Acts 20:26‑27• 26Wherefore I testify to you this day that I am pure from the blood of all.
 27For I shrank not from announcing to you all the counsel of God. (Acts 20:26‑27)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it.

W. Kelly Translation

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When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it.

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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.)