Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.This verse in the real world
In what words
- חוּסchûwçproperly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
- שֵׁןshêna tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
- רֶגֶלregela foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshproperly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in
- עַיִןʻayinan eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- יָדyâda hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.