Deuteronomy 32:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רְא֣וּ ׀ עַתָּ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי֙ ה֔וּא וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּדִ֑י אֲנִ֧י אָמִ֣ית וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔א וְאֵ֥ין מִיָּדִ֖י מַצִּֽיל׃

Transliteration

Rəʾû now that ʾănî ʾănî hûʾ, and-there-is-no ʾĕlōhîm with-me; ʾănî ʾāmîṯ and-ʾăḥayyeh, māḥaṣtî and-ʾănî ʾerpāʾ, and-there-is-none from-my-hand maṣṣîl.

Grammar Details

• *rəʾû*: verb, qal imperative, masculine, plural - see/behold
• *ʿattāh*: adverb - now
• *kî*: conjunction - that/because
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person, singular - I
• *hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is none
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine, plural - gods/God
• *ʿimmāḏî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - with me
• *ʾāmîṯ*: verb, hifil imperfect, 1st person singular - I kill
• *wa*: conjunction - and
• *ʾăḥayyeh*: verb, piel imperfect, 1st person singular - I make alive
• *māḥaṣtî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have wounded
• *ʾerpāʾ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I heal
• *miyyāḏî*: preposition with noun, feminine, singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - from my hand
• *maṣṣîl*: participle, hifil, masculine, singular - one who delivers/rescues

Word Meanings

• *rəʾû*: see/behold/observe
• *ʾănî* *ʾănî* *hûʾ*: I, even I, am he/I am the one
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: gods/God/deity
• *ʾāmîṯ*: I kill/put to death
• *ʾăḥayyeh*: I make alive/bring to life/revive
• *māḥaṣtî*: I have wounded/struck/pierced
• *ʾerpāʾ*: I heal/restore/make whole
• *maṣṣîl*: one who delivers/rescues/saves

Referenced Verses

• Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.
• Job 5:18 : 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
• Isa 45:5 : 5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
• Isa 46:4 : 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
• Isa 41:4 : 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last, I am he.
• Isa 43:13 : 13 Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
• 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
• Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
• Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
• Isa 48:12 : 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
• Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, {G3427} Fear not; I am the first and the last, 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, {G0} {G281} and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
• Rev 2:8 : 8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived [again]:
• Mic 5:8 : 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
• John 8:24 : 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except {G3361} ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.
• Heb 1:12 : 12 And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
• Rev 1:11 : 11 saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
• Deut 4:35 : 35 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him.
• Ps 102:27 : 27 But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
• Job 10:7 : 7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?