Deuteronomy 10:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּשִׁבְעִ֣ים נֶ֔פֶשׁ יָרְד֥וּ אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ מִצְרָ֑יְמָהּ וְעַתָּ֗ה שָֽׂמְךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ כְּכוֹכְבֵ֥י הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם לָרֹֽב׃

Transliteration

With šibʿîm nepeš yārədû ʾăbōtêkā Miṣrāyemâ and now śāməkā YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā like kəkôkəbê the šāmayim for lārōb

Grammar Details

*šibʿîm*: cardinal number with prefixed preposition bet - with seventy
*nepeš*: feminine singular - person/soul
*yārədû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - went down
*ʾăbōtêkā*: masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your fathers
*Miṣrāyemâ*: proper name with directional heh - to Egypt
*śāməkā*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he has made you
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
*kəkôkəbê*: masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition kaph - like stars of
*šāmayim*: masculine dual with definite article - the heavens
*lārōb*: masculine singular with prefixed preposition lamed - for multitude

Word Meanings

*nepeš*: person/soul/life
*yārad*: go down/descend
*ʾāb*: father/ancestor
*śîm*: make/put/set
*kôkāb*: star/heavenly body
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*rōb*: multitude/abundance/greatness

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Gen 46:27 : 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Exod 1:5 : 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Deut 1:10 : 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deut 28:62 : 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Neh 9:23 : 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Acts 7:14 : 14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred , threescore and fifteen souls.
Num 26:51 : 51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Num 26:62 : 62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
Heb 11:12 : 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 1:10-11
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10The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
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23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Deut 10:21
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21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
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5And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Deut 28:62
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62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Exod 32:13
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13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Deut 26:5
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5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Gen 22:17
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17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Deut 10:14-15
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14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
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Deut 11:21
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21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Deut 28:11
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11And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deut 7:13
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13And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deut 30:9
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9And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
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1 Chr 16:19
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31And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
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Deut 29:13
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Gen 46:3
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Heb 11:12
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Gen 32:12
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Deut 7:19
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Deut 8:13
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