Deuteronomy 12:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־יַרְחִיב֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֥יךָ אֶֽת־גְּבֽוּלְךָ֮ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּר־לָךְ֒ וְאָמַרְתָּ֙ אֹכְלָ֣ה בָשָׂ֔ר כִּֽי־תְאַוֶּ֥ה נַפְשְׁךָ֖ לֶאֱכֹ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר בְּכָל־אַוַּ֥ת נַפְשְׁךָ֖ תֹּאכַ֥ל בָּשָֽׂר׃

Transliteration

Kî-yarkhîb YHWH ʾĕlōhêkhā ʾet-gəbûləkhā as-which dibber-to-you wə-ʾāmartā ʾōkhəlāh bāśār kî-təʾawweh naphshəkhā to-ʾĕkhōl bāśār in-all-ʾawwat naphshəkhā tōʾkhal bāśār

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - when/if/because
*yarkhîb*: verb, Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will enlarge/extend
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*ʾĕlōhêkhā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*gəbûləkhā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your border/territory
*dibber*: verb, Piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he spoke/promised
*wə-ʾāmartā*: conjunction + verb, Qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - and you will say
*ʾōkhəlāh*: verb, Qal cohortative 1st person singular - let me eat
*bāśār*: noun, masculine singular - meat/flesh
*təʾawweh*: verb, Piel imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - she desires/craves
*naphshəkhā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your soul/appetite
*ʾĕkhōl*: verb, Qal infinitive construct - to eat
*ʾawwat*: noun, feminine singular construct - desire of
*tōʾkhal*: verb, Qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you shall eat

Word Meanings

*kî*: when/if/because
*yarkhîb*: enlarge/extend/broaden
*gəbûləkhā*: border/territory/boundary
*dibber*: speak/promise/declare
*ʾōkhəlāh*: let me eat/I will eat
*bāśār*: meat/flesh/body
*təʾawweh*: desire/crave/long for
*naphshəkhā*: your soul/self/being/appetite/desire
*ʾawwat*: desire/longing/craving

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Referenced Verses

Deut 19:8 : 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
Deut 11:24 : 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Gen 28:14 : 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Num 11:20 : 20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Num 11:34 : 34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Exod 23:31 : 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Deut 12:15 : 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2 Sam 23:15 : 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek{H8762)} thee: my soul thirsteth{H8804)} for thee, my flesh longeth{H8804)} for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longeth{H8738)}, yea, even fainteth{H8804)} for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out{H8762)} for the living God.
Ps 107:9 : 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Ps 119:20 : 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
2 Cor 9:14 : 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Phil 2:26 : 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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Deut 12:21-23
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21If 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.
22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
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