Deuteronomy 4:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיהוָ֥ה הִתְאַנֶּף־בִּ֖י עַל־דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑ם וַיִּשָּׁבַ֗ע לְבִלְתִּ֤י עָבְרִי֙ אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן וּלְבִלְתִּי־בֹא֙ אֶל־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָֽה׃

Transliteration

wa-YHWH hitʾannep-bî ʿal-dibrêkem wa-yyiššābaʿ lə-biltî ʿobrî ʾet-ha-yyardēn û-lə-biltî-bōʾ ʾel-hā-ʾāreṣ ha-ṭṭôbāh ʾăšer YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā nōtēn ləkā naḥălāh.

Grammar Details

*wa-YHWH*: conjunction + proper noun - and LORD/Yahweh
*hitʾannep*: Hithpael perfect, 3rd masculine singular - was angry
*bî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - with me
*ʿal-dibrêkem*: preposition + masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix - because of your words
*wa-yyiššābaʿ*: conjunction + Niphal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and swore
*lə-biltî*: preposition + conjunction - to not
*ʿobrî*: Qal infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my crossing
*ʾet-ha-yyardēn*: direct object marker + definite article + proper noun - the Jordan
*û-lə-biltî-bōʾ*: conjunction + preposition + conjunction + Qal infinitive construct - and to not enter
*ʾel-hā-ʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - to the land
*ha-ṭṭôbāh*: definite article + feminine singular adjective - the good
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
*nōtēn*: Qal participle, masculine singular - giving
*ləkā*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
*naḥălāh*: feminine singular noun - inheritance

Word Meanings

*hitʾannep*: was angry/became furious/was wrathful
*dibrêkem*: your words/your matters/your affairs
*yiššābaʿ*: swore/vowed/took an oath
*biltî*: not/without/except
*ʿobrî*: my crossing/my passing over
*yardēn*: Jordan/Jordan River
*bōʾ*: enter/come/go in
*ʾāreṣ*: land/country/territory
*ṭôbāh*: good/pleasant/agreeable
*nōtēn*: giving/granting/bestowing
*naḥălāh*: inheritance/heritage/possession

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Referenced Verses

Deut 1:37 : 37 Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
Num 20:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
Deut 3:26 : 26 But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
Deut 31:2 : 2 And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Ps 106:32-33 : 32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes; 33 Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Deut 1:37-38
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37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Deut 4:22
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22but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deut 3:25-27
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25Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
27Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deut 1:34-35
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34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Num 32:10-11
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10And Jehovah's anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying,
11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Deut 10:11
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11And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Deut 34:4
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4And Jehovah said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Deut 4:20
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20But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Deut 11:31
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31For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
Judg 2:20
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20And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Num 32:19
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19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.
Deut 32:51-52
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51because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
52For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.
Num 14:23
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23surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Deut 32:49
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49Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession;
Deut 1:42
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42And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
Deut 11:17
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17and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.
Deut 2:29
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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.
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.
Deut 31:2
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2And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deut 29:27
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27therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
Josh 22:25
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25for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Jehovah.
Josh 14:9
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9And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to thy children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my God.
Num 14:16
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16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Num 14:30-31
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30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
Ezek 20:15
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15Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Exod 33:3
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3unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I consume thee in the way.
Deut 9:4-5
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4Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee.
5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Num 20:24
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24Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
Num 27:12
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12And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
Deut 1:26-27
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26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:
27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Deut 9:23
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23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Jer 17:4
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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 9:8
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Josh 24:8
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8And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Deut 30:18
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18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
Num 33:50
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50And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Deut 4:26
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26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Josh 1:6
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6Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.