Deuteronomy 8:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּן־תֹּאכַ֖ל וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ וּבָתִּ֥ים טוֹבִ֛ים תִּבְנֶ֖ה וְיָשָֽׁבְתָּ׃

Transliteration

Lest-tōʾkal and-śābāʿtā and-bāttîm ṭôbîm tibneh and-yāšābtā.

Grammar Details

*tōʾkal*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you eat
*śābāʿtā*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you are satisfied
*bāttîm*: masculine plural noun - houses
*ṭôbîm*: masculine plural adjective - good
*tibneh*: Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you build
*yāšābtā*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you dwell

Word Meanings

*tōʾkal*: you eat/consume
*śābāʿtā*: you are satisfied/are full
*bāttîm*: houses/dwellings
*ṭôbîm*: good/pleasant/fine/beautiful
*tibneh*: you build/construct
*yāšābtā*: you dwell/settle/inhabit/sit

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.
Deut 28:47 : 47 Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deut 31:20 : 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Eccl 2:4 : 4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Jer 22:14-15 : 14 that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
Ezek 11:3 : 3 that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Hos 13:5-6 : 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Hag 1:4 : 4 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
Luke 17:28 : 28 Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

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