Deuteronomy 12:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַהֲבֵאתֶ֣ם שָׁ֗מָּה עֹלֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֵת֙ מַעְשְׂרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת תְּרוּמַ֣ת יֶדְכֶ֑ם וְנִדְרֵיכֶם֙ וְנִדְבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת בְּקַרְכֶ֖ם וְצֹאנְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-hăḇêʾtem there ʿōlōtêḵɛm wə-ziḇḥêḵɛm and ʾēt maʿśərōtêḵɛm and ʾēt tərûmat yɛdḵɛm wə-nidrêḵɛm wə-nidḇōtêḵɛm and bəḵōrōt bəqarḵɛm wə-ṣōʾnḵɛm

Grammar Details

• *wa-hăḇêʾtem*: conjunction + hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine plural - and you shall bring
• *ʿōlōtêḵɛm*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your burnt offerings
• *wə-ziḇḥêḵɛm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your sacrifices
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *maʿśərōtêḵɛm*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your tithes
• *tərûmat*: feminine singular construct - contribution/offering of
• *yɛdḵɛm*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your hand
• *wə-nidrêḵɛm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your vows
• *wə-nidḇōtêḵɛm*: conjunction + feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your freewill offerings
• *bəḵōrōt*: feminine plural noun - firstborn
• *bəqarḵɛm*: masculine singular collective noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your cattle/herd
• *wə-ṣōʾnḵɛm*: conjunction + masculine singular collective noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your flock

Word Meanings

• *hăḇêʾtem*: bring/bring in/carry in
• *ʿōlōtêḵɛm*: your burnt offerings/your whole burnt offerings
• *ziḇḥêḵɛm*: your sacrifices/your slaughter offerings
• *maʿśərōtêḵɛm*: your tithes/your tenth parts
• *tərûmat*: contribution/heave offering/offering
• *yɛdḵɛm*: your hand [idiom for what your hands produce]
• *nidrêḵɛm*: your vows/your vowed offerings
• *nidḇōtêḵɛm*: your freewill offerings/your voluntary offerings
• *bəḵōrōt*: firstborn/firstlings
• *bəqarḵɛm*: your cattle/your herd/your oxen
• *ṣōʾnḵɛm*: your flock/your sheep and goats

Referenced Verses

• Deut 15:19-20 : 19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. 20 Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.
• Deut 26:2 : 2 that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Ezek 20:40 : 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
• Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
• Mal 3:10 : 10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it].
• Luke 11:42 : 42 But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
• Luke 18:12 : 12 I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get.
• Lev 17:3-9 : 3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp, 4 and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: 5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto Jehovah. 6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet savor unto Jehovah. 7 And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. 8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice, 9 and bringeth it not unto the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it unto Jehovah; that man shall be cut off from his people.
• Lev 27:32-33 : 32 And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto Jehovah. 33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
• Num 18:15-17 : 15 Everything that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be thine: nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs). 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
• Deut 12:17 : 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand;
• Deut 14:22-26 : 22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: 26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household.