Deuteronomy 3:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י רַק־ע֞וֹג מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֗ן נִשְׁאַר֮ מִיֶּ֣תֶר הָרְפָאִים֒ הִנֵּ֤ה עַרְשׂוֹ֙ עֶ֣רֶשׂ בַּרְזֶ֔ל הֲלֹ֣ה הִ֔וא בְּרַבַּ֖ת בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן תֵּ֧שַׁע אַמּ֣וֹת אָרְכָּ֗הּ וְאַרְבַּ֥ע אַמּ֛וֹת רָחְבָּ֖הּ בְּאַמַּת־אִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

For kî only-raq-ʿÔg king-of melek the-haBāšān remained nišʾar from-remnant-of miyyeter the-hārəpāʾîm. Behold hinnēh bed-his ʿarśô bed-of ʿereś iron barzel, is-not hălōh it hiwʾ in-Rabbat sons-of bənê ʿAmmôn? Nine tēšaʿ cubits ʾammôt length-its ʾorkāh and-four wəʾarbaʿ cubits ʾammôt width-its roḥbāh by-cubit-of bəʾammat-man ʾîš.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*raq*: adverb - only/surely
*ʿÔg*: proper noun, personal name - Og
*melek*: noun, masculine singular construct - king of
*haBāšān*: definite article + proper noun, geographic location - the Bashan
*nišʾar*: verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he remained/was left
*miyyeter*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from remnant of
*hārəpāʾîm*: definite article + proper noun, masculine plural - the Rephaim (giants)
*hinnēh*: interjection - behold/look
*ʿarśô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his bed
*ʿereś*: noun, feminine singular construct - bed of
*barzel*: noun, masculine singular - iron
*hălōh*: interrogative particle + negative particle - is it not
*hiwʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person feminine singular - it/she
*Rabbat*: proper noun, geographic location construct - Rabbah of
*bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of
*ʿAmmôn*: proper noun, geographic/ethnic - Ammon
*tēšaʿ*: number, cardinal - nine
*ʾammôt*: noun, feminine plural - cubits
*ʾorkāh*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its length
*wəʾarbaʿ*: conjunction + number, cardinal - and four
*roḥbāh*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its width
*bəʾammat*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - by cubit of
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man

Word Meanings

*rəpāʾîm*: Rephaim/giants/shades/dead ones
*ʿereś*: bed/couch/resting place/sarcophagus
*barzel*: iron/iron implement

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Referenced Verses

Gen 14:5 : 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
2 Sam 12:26 : 26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Jer 49:2 : 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.
Ezek 21:20 : 20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
Amos 2:9 : 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
Deut 2:11 : 11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deut 2:20 : 20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
1 Sam 17:4 : 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
2 Sam 11:1 : 1 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.

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Deut 3:10
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10all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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4and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
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Josh 13:11-12
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11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salecah;
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Deut 3:12-14
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12And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
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Deut 3:1-4
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1Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei.
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3So Jehovah our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
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Ps 135:11
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11Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan,
Deut 2:20-21
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20(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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Josh 13:30
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Deut 1:4
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Num 21:33-34
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66%
33And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
34And Jehovah said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
1 Sam 17:4
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4And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
1 Kgs 4:19
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Ps 136:20
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Deut 29:7
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Josh 11:22
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Deut 2:10-11
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10(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
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Josh 9:10
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10and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
1 Kgs 7:27
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Deut 9:2
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2 Sam 21:20
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20And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
Deut 4:47
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Isa 28:20
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20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Neh 9:22
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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.
Song 3:7
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7Behold, it is the litter Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.
1 Chr 20:6
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2 Kgs 10:33
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Num 13:33
63%
33And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
1 Kgs 4:13
63%
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Num 32:33
63%
33And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half - tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities thereof with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
Judg 11:26
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1 Chr 11:23
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1 Kgs 6:25
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Ezek 40:12
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