Deuteronomy 20:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ עִמָּכֶ֑ם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם לָכֶ֛ם עִם־אֹיְבֵיכֶ֖ם לְהוֹשִׁ֥יעַ אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

For YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem the-one-who-hōlēḵ with-you to-hillāḥēm for-you with-ʾōyḇêḵem to-hôšîaʿ ʾetḵem.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*YHWH*: divine name - LORD
*ʾĕlōhêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
*hahōlēḵ*: definite article + qal participle masculine singular - the one who walks/goes
*ʿimmāḵem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - with you
*lĕhillāḥēm*: preposition + niphal infinitive construct - to fight
*lāḵem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - for you
*ʿim*: preposition - with
*ʾōyḇêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your enemies
*lĕhôšîaʿ*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to save/deliver
*ʾetḵem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you

Word Meanings

*ʾĕlōhêḵem*: your God/gods/deity
*hōlēḵ*: walking/going/proceeding
*hillāḥēm*: to fight/do battle/wage war
*ʾōyḇêḵem*: your enemies/adversaries/foes
*hôšîaʿ*: to save/deliver/rescue/give victory

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 1:30 : 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Josh 23:10 : 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Deut 3:22 : 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
2 Chr 13:12 : 12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Josh 10:42 : 42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Rom 8:37 : 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Exod 14:14 : 14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
2 Chr 32:7-8 : 7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: 8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
Ps 144:1-2 : 1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Deut 11:25 : 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

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Deut 1:29-30
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29Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Deut 3:22
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22Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
Deut 20:1-3
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1When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
2And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
3And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
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3And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.
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9For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
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5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
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Exod 14:14
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14The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
2 Chr 20:17
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17Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
Deut 31:8
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8And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
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39But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Chr 13:12
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Deut 31:3
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3The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
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42And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
Deut 23:14
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Deut 7:21
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Deut 21:10
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Josh 1:5
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Deut 9:3
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3Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
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Isa 52:12
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Exod 23:22-23
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Deut 3:18
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Num 10:9
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2 Chr 20:29
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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.
Deut 4:31
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Deut 33:27
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Deut 4:20
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