Deuteronomy 33:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַשְׁרֶ֨יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל מִ֣י כָמ֗וֹךָ עַ֚ם נוֹשַׁ֣ע בַּֽיהוָ֔ה מָגֵ֣ן עֶזְרֶ֔ךָ וַאֲשֶׁר־חֶ֖רֶב גַּאֲוָתֶ֑ךָ וְיִכָּֽחֲשׁ֤וּ אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙ לָ֔ךְ וְאַתָּ֖ה עַל־בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹ תִדְרֹֽךְ׃ ס

Transliteration

ʾAšrêkā Yiśrāʾēl who like-you ʿam nôšaʿ in-YHWH māgēn ʿezrekā and-which-ḥereb gaʾăwātekā and-yikkāḥăšû ʾōyəbêkā to-you and-you on-bāmôtêmô tidrōk

Grammar Details

• *ʾašrêkā*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - blessed/happy are you
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
• *kāmôkā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - like you
• *ʿam*: noun, masculine singular - people
• *nôšaʿ*: niphal participle, masculine singular - saved
• *ba-YHWH*: preposition + proper noun - by the LORD
• *māgēn*: noun, masculine singular construct - shield of
• *ʿezrekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your help
• *wa-ʾăšer*: conjunction + relative pronoun - and which
• *ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular construct - sword of
• *gaʾăwātekā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your excellence
• *wə-yikkāḥăšû*: conjunction + niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they will submit
• *ʾōyəbêkā*: qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your enemies
• *lāk*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
• *wə-ʾattâ*: conjunction + 2nd masculine singular pronoun - and you
• *ʿal-bāmôtêmô*: preposition + noun, feminine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix (poetic) - upon their high places
• *tidrōk*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will tread

Word Meanings

• *ʾešer*: happiness/blessedness
• *nôšaʿ*: saved/delivered/rescued
• *māgēn*: shield/protection/defense
• *gaʾăwâ*: excellence/majesty/pride
• *kāḥaš*: submit/feign obedience/cringe
• *bāmâ*: high place/height/ridge
• *dārak*: tread/walk/march

Referenced Verses

• Ps 115:9-9 : 9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
• 2 Sam 7:23 : 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Ps 66:3 : 3 Say{H8798)} unto God, How terrible{H8737)} art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies{H8802)} submit{H8762)} themselves unto thee.
• Hab 3:19 : 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
• Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
• Num 23:20-24 : 20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. 23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
• Deut 4:7-8 : 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• Deut 32:13 : 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
• Ps 144:15 : 15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
• Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
• Ps 7:12 : 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
• Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
• Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
• Ps 33:20 : 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
• Ps 45:3 : 3 Gird{H8798)} thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
• Josh 10:24-25 : 24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
• Num 24:5 : 5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
• 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
• Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Rev 19:21 : 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
• Jer 12:12 : 12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
• Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give{H8799)} grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold{H8799)} from them that walk{H8802)} uprightly.
• Jer 47:6 : 6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
• Ps 81:15 : 15 The haters{H8764)} of the LORD should have submitted{H8762)} themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
• 2 Sam 22:45 : 45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
• Judg 7:20 : 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.