Deuteronomy 6:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

He will drive out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has promised.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַהֲדֹ֥ף אֶת־כָּל־אֹיְבֶ֖יךָ מִפָּנֶ֑יךָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

To-lahadōp ʾet-all-ʾōyĕbêka from-mippānêka as which dibber YHWH

Grammar Details

• *la-hadōp*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - to thrust out
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: noun, construct - all of
• *ʾōyĕbêka*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your enemies
• *mi-ppānêka*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from before you
• *ka-ʾăšer*: preposition + relative pronoun - as
• *dibber*: Piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - spoke
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh

Word Meanings

• *hadōp*: thrust out/drive away/repel
• *ʾōyĕbîm*: enemies/foes/adversaries
• *pānîm*: face/presence/before
• *dibber*: spoke/said/promised

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  and that the Lorde maye cast out all thine enemies before the as he hath sayed.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that he maye chace out all thine enemies before the, as the LORDE hath sayde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lorde hath sayde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  To send out from before you all those who are against you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:28-30 : 28 I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites from your path. 29 I will not drive them out before you in a single year, because the land would become desolate, and the wild animals would multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.
• Num 33:52-53 : 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places. 53 You shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
• Judg 2:1-3 : 1 The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, 'I brought you up from Egypt and led you to the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you forever.' 2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?' 3 So now I say, 'I will not drive them out before you. They will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.'
• Judg 3:1-4 : 1 These are the nations that the Lord left in order to test Israel—those who had not experienced the wars of Canaan. 2 He did this to teach subsequent generations of the Israelites—those who had not known previous wars—how to fight. 3 The nations included the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath. 4 They were left to test Israel in order to know whether they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had given to their ancestors through Moses.