Deuteronomy 1:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם הִרְבָּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֑ם וְהִנְּכֶ֣ם הַיּ֔וֹם כְּכוֹכְבֵ֥י הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם לָרֹֽב

Transliteration

YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem hirbâ you and-hinnəḵem the-yôm like-kôḵəḇê the-šāmayim lārōḇ

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
*ʾĕlōhêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your God
*hirbâ*: hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - has multiplied
*hinnəḵem*: interjection with 2nd masculine plural suffix - behold you
*yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
*kôḵəḇê*: masculine plural construct - stars of
*šāmayim*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the heavens/sky
*lārōḇ*: masculine singular noun with preposition - for multitude

Word Meanings

*hirbâ*: has multiplied/increased/made many
*hinnəḵem*: behold you/look at you
*lārōḇ*: for multitude/abundance/greatness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Deut 10:22 : 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deut 28:62 : 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Gen 22:17 : 17 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Num 1:46 : 46 even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Gen 28:14 : 14 and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Exod 12:37 : 37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.
1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
Neh 9:23 : 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 1:11-12
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11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
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Deut 10:21-22
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23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Deut 28:62
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62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
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21that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
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14Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.
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Deut 7:13-14
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13and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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Deut 26:19
74%
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Gen 28:3
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3And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;
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Josh 23:10
73%
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Deut 30:9
73%
9And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;
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73%
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Gen 22:17
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14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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Deut 1:31
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Deut 28:1
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