עֵ֫קֶב
e.qev (H6118)
consequence
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# עֵקֶב (e.qev): Consequence and What Follows The Hebrew word *e.qev* carries the fundamental meaning of "consequence"—that which results from or follows an action or event. With 15 occurrences across the biblical text, this term functions as a linguistic tool for expressing cause-and-effect relationships and the outcomes that flow from prior circumstances. The word appears with sufficient frequency to indicate it held practical importance in biblical Hebrew discourse, though it was not among the most common vocabulary items in the language. The semantic focus on consequence suggests the word was employed when biblical authors needed to articulate how one thing leads to another—whether describing the results of obedience, disobedience, decisions, or divine action. Its relatively modest occurrence count indicates that biblical Hebrew possessed other terms for related concepts, and *e.qev* likely occupied a specific niche in expressing sequential or causal relationships. The word's presence across biblical literature reflects the writers' concern with understanding outcomes and their connections to preceding causes, a theme central to biblical narrative and law.
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All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
“Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.