Deuteronomy 29:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתָּבֹ֖אוּ אֶל־הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיֵּצֵ֣א סִיחֹ֣ן מֶֽלֶךְ־חֶ֠שְׁבּוֹן וְע֨וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֧ן לִקְרָאתֵ֛נוּ לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה וַנַּכֵּֽם׃

Transliteration

And-tābōʾû to-the-māqôm the-zeh; and-yēṣēʾ Sîḥōn meleḵ-Ḥešbôn and-ʿÔg meleḵ-the-Bāšān to-qirʾātēnû to-the-milḥāmāh and-nakkēm.

Grammar Details

*tābōʾû*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural consecutive - and you came
*māqôm*: noun masculine singular - place
*zeh*: demonstrative adjective masculine singular - this
*yēṣēʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he came out
*Sîḥōn*: proper noun - Sihon
*meleḵ*: noun masculine singular construct - king of
*Ḥešbôn*: proper noun - Heshbon
*ʿÔg*: proper noun - Og
*Bāšān*: proper noun - Bashan
*qirʾātēnû*: preposition with noun feminine singular construct with 1st common plural suffix - to meet us
*milḥāmāh*: noun feminine singular - battle/war
*nakkēm*: Hiphil imperfect 1st common plural consecutive - and we struck them

Word Meanings

*māqôm*: place/location/site
*qirʾātēnû*: to meet us/toward us/against us
*nakkēm*: we struck them/defeated them/conquered them

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Referenced Verses

Deut 8:3 : 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
Neh 9:15 : 15 and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Ps 78:24-25 : 24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven. 25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
1 Cor 9:25 : 25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they {G3303} [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
Exod 16:12 : 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.
Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Num 16:14 : 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
Num 20:8 : 8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.

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