Deuteronomy 2:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י רְאֵ֗ה הַֽחִלֹּ֙תִי֙ תֵּ֣ת לְפָנֶ֔יךָ אֶת־סִיחֹ֖ן וְאֶת־אַרְצ֑וֹ הָחֵ֣ל רָ֔שׁ לָרֶ֖שֶׁת אֶת־אַרְצֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wayyōʾmer YHWH to-me rəʾêh haḥillōtî têt before-you ʾet-sîḥōn and-ʾet-ʾarṣô hāḥêl rāš lārešet ʾet-ʾarṣô

Grammar Details

*wayyōʾmer*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
*rəʾêh*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular - see/behold
*haḥillōtî*: verb, Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - I have begun
*têt*: verb, Qal infinitive construct - to give
*sîḥōn*: proper noun - Sihon
*ʾarṣô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his land
*hāḥêl*: verb, Hiphil imperative masculine singular - begin
*rāš*: verb, Qal infinitive absolute - possessing
*lārešet*: preposition + verb, Qal infinitive construct - to possess/inherit

Word Meanings

*rəʾêh*: see/behold/look
*haḥillōtî*: I have begun/I have started/I am beginning
*têt*: to give/to deliver/to place
*hāḥêl*: begin/start/commence
*rāš* *lārešet*: possessing to possess (emphatic construction meaning 'take possession')

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Referenced Verses

Deut 1:8 : 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
Deut 2:24 : 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

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Deut 2:24-25
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24Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Deut 1:8
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8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
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21And Jehovah, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
22And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.
23So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?
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Deut 2:29-30
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29as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
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Deut 2:32-33
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32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz.
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22Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Deut 1:20-21
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20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
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Deut 31:3-5
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3Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
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Deut 11:31
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11Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan,
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Deut 9:4-5
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Deut 12:29
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Deut 1:4
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Deut 4:47
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Deut 3:18
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Josh 12:2
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