Deuteronomy 32:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זְכֹר֙ יְמ֣וֹת עוֹלָ֔ם בִּ֖ינוּ שְׁנ֣וֹת דּוֹר־וָד֑וֹר שְׁאַ֤ל אָבִ֙יךָ֙ וְיַגֵּ֔דְךָ זְקֵנֶ֖יךָ וְיֹ֥אמְרוּ לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

zəḵōr yəmôṯ ʿôlām bînû šənôṯ dôr-wādôr šəʾal ʾābîḵā wəyaggēdəḵā zəqēneḵā wəyōʾmərû lāḵ

Grammar Details

*zəḵōr*: Qal imperative masculine singular - remember
*yəmôṯ*: masculine plural construct noun - days of
*ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - eternity/long time
*bînû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - consider/understand
*šənôṯ*: feminine plural construct noun - years of
*dôr*-*wādôr*: masculine singular noun + conjunction + masculine singular noun - generation and generation
*šəʾal*: Qal imperative masculine singular - ask
*ʾābîḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your father
*wəyaggēdəḵā*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and he will tell you
*zəqēneḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your elders
*wəyōʾmərû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - and they will say
*lāḵ*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you

Word Meanings

*zəḵōr*: remember/recall/call to mind
*yəmôṯ*: days/times
*ʿôlām*: eternity/antiquity/long duration/ancient times
*bînû*: consider/understand/discern
*šənôṯ*: years/periods
*dôr-wādôr*: generation to generation/each generation
*šəʾal*: ask/inquire/request
*wəyaggēdəḵā*: and he will tell you/and he will declare to you/and he will inform you
*zəqēneḵā*: your elders/your old men/your ancestors

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
Ps 78:3-4 : 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
Ps 119:52 : 52 I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.
Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me;
Isa 63:11 : 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
Exod 13:14 : 14 And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
Deut 4:32 : 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Job 8:8-9 : 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
Ps 77:5-6 : 5 I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.
Ps 77:11-12 : 11 I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also upon all thy work, And muse on thy doings.
Ps 77:8 : 8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?
Ps 10:6 : 6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
Judg 6:13 : 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

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