Deuteronomy 12:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֣ה הַמָּק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֥ם בּוֹ֙ לְשַׁכֵּ֤ן שְׁמוֹ֙ שָׁ֔ם שָׁ֣מָּה תָבִ֔יאוּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י מְצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֑ם עוֹלֹתֵיכֶ֣ם וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֗ם מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ וּתְרֻמַ֣ת יֶדְכֶ֔ם וְכֹל֙ מִבְחַ֣ר נִדְרֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּדְּר֖וּ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh the māqôm which-yiḇḥar YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵɛm in it to šakkēn šəmô there there tāḇîʾû ʾēt all-which I məṣawwɛh ʾetḵɛm ʿôlōtêḵɛm wə-ziḇḥêḵɛm maʿśərōtêḵɛm û-tərûmat yɛdḵɛm and all miḇḥar nidrêḵɛm which tiddərû to YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-hāyāh*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - and it shall be
• *māqôm*: masculine singular noun - place
• *yiḇḥar*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will choose
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêḵɛm*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
• *šakkēn*: piel infinitive construct - to cause to dwell
• *šəmô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his name
• *tāḇîʾû*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you shall bring
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *məṣawwɛh*: piel participle masculine singular - commanding
• *ʾetḵɛm*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *ʿôlōtêḵɛm*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your burnt offerings
• *wə-ziḇḥêḵɛm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your sacrifices
• *maʿśərōtêḵɛm*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your tithes
• *û-tərûmat*: conjunction + feminine singular construct - and contribution/offering of
• *yɛdḵɛm*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your hand
• *miḇḥar*: masculine singular construct - choice/best of
• *nidrêḵɛm*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your vows
• *tiddərû*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you will vow

Word Meanings

• *hāyāh*: be/become/happen
• *yiḇḥar*: choose/select/elect
• *šakkēn*: cause to dwell/establish/make to abide
• *tāḇîʾû*: bring/bring in/carry in
• *məṣawwɛh*: commanding/ordering/charging
• *miḇḥar*: choice/best/select part
• *tiddərû*: vow/promise/pledge

Referenced Verses

• Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
• Deut 15:20 : 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
• Deut 17:8 : 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
• Deut 18:6 : 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
• Deut 23:16 : 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
• Deut 26:2 : 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
• Deut 31:11 : 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
• Josh 18:1 : 1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
• 1 Kgs 8:13 : 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
• 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
• Ps 78:68 : 68 But chose{H8799)} the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved{H8804)}.
• Jer 7:12 : 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
• John 4:20-23 : 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
• Deut 16:2-8 : 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
• Deut 12:14 : 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
• Deut 12:18 : 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
• Deut 12:21 : 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
• Deut 12:26 : 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
• Deut 14:23 : 23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.