Deuteronomy 33:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall drive out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מְעֹנָה֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵי קֶ֔דֶם וּמִתַּ֖חַת זְרֹעֹ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם וַיְגָ֧רֶשׁ מִפָּנֶ֛יךָ אוֹיֵ֖ב וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הַשְׁמֵֽד׃

Transliteration

Məʿōnāh ʾĕlōhê qedem and-from-under zərōʿōt ʿôlām and-waygāreš from-before-you ʾôyēb and-wayōʾmer hašmēd

Grammar Details

• *məʿōnāh*: noun, feminine singular - dwelling place
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *qedem*: noun, masculine singular - ancient time/east
• *û-mi-taḥat*: conjunction + preposition - and from beneath
• *zərōʿōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - arms of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - everlasting/eternity
• *wa-ygāreš*: conjunction + piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he drove out
• *mi-pānêkā*: preposition + noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - from before you
• *ʾôyēb*: qal participle, masculine singular - enemy
• *wa-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *hašmēd*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular - destroy

Word Meanings

• *məʿōnāh*: dwelling place/habitation/refuge
• *ʾĕlōhê*: God of (construct form)
• *qedem*: ancient/of old/east
• *zərōʿōt*: arms/strength/power
• *gāraš*: drive out/expel/cast out
• *šāmad*: destroy/annihilate/exterminate

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, 'Destroy them!'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  The eternal God is thy refuge, and unrneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, stroy them.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  that is the dwellinge place of God from the begynynge and from vnder the armes of the worlde: he hath cast out thine enemies before the and sayed: destroye.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge, and vnder the armes of the worlde. And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the, and saye: Be destroyed.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder the armes of the euerlastyng God shalt thou lyue: He shall cast out the enemie before thee, and say, destroy them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The eternal God is [your] dwelling-place, Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, Said, Destroy.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  A habitation `is' the eternal God, And beneath `are' arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  The eternal God is `thy' dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, 'Destroy!'

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said,“Destroy!”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 18:2 : 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
• Ps 91:9 : 9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
• Isa 25:4 : 4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is like a storm against the wall.
• Rom 16:20 : 20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Ps 90:1-2 : 1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
• Ps 91:1-2 : 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God, in whom I will trust.
• Ps 46:1 : 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Gen 49:24 : 24 But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.)
• Ps 102:24 : 24 I said, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."
• Prov 18:10 : 10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous run into it, and are safe.
• Jer 10:10 : 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure his indignation.
• Isa 26:4 : 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
• Isa 32:2 : 2 And a man shall be like a shelter from the wind, and a refuge from the storm; like rivers of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
• Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you; how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
• John 10:28-29 : 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Jude 1:24 : 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Ps 48:3 : 3 God is known in her palaces as a refuge.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were fulfilled; and after that, he must be released for a little while.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Mic 5:2 : 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origins have been from of old, from everlasting.
• Phil 3:9 : 9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
• 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Song 2:6 : 6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
• Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
• Prov 10:25 : 25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
• Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
• Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
• Deut 9:3-5 : 3 Understand therefore today, that the LORD your God is the one who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. 4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you. 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for He is not a man, that He should repent.
• Ps 46:7 : 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 46:11 : 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 27:5 : 5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.
• Ps 36:7 : 7 How excellent is your lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.