Deuteronomy 4:37

KJV1611 – Modern English

And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And-ṯaḥaṯ because ʾāhaḇ ʾet-ʾăḇōṯeḵā wayyiḇḥar in-zarʿô after-him, wayyôṣîʾăḵā with-p̄ānāyw with-kōḥô the-gāḏōl from-miṣrayim.

Grammar Details

• *ṯaḥaṯ*: preposition - under/beneath/instead of
• *ʾāhaḇ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he loved
• *ʾăḇōṯeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your fathers
• *wayyiḇḥar*: waw consecutive + verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he chose
• *zarʿô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his seed/offspring
• *wayyôṣîʾăḵā*: waw consecutive + verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and he brought you out
• *p̄ānāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his face/presence
• *kōḥô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his strength
• *gāḏōl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

• *ṯaḥaṯ*: under/beneath/instead of/because
• *ʾāhaḇ*: to love/like/be fond of
• *ʾăḇōṯeḵā*: your fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *wayyiḇḥar*: to choose/select/elect
• *zarʿô*: his seed/offspring/descendants/posterity
• *wayyôṣîʾăḵā*: to bring out/lead out/take out
• *p̄ānāyw*: his face/presence/person
• *kōḥô*: his strength/power/might
• *gāḏōl*: great/large/mighty

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Because He loved your ancestors, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt with His great power and presence.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And because he loved{H157} thy fathers,{H1} therefore he chose{H977} their seed{H2233} after{H310} them, and brought thee out{H3318} with his presence,{H6440} with his great{H1419} power,{H3581} out of Egypt;{H4714}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And because he loved{H157}{(H8804)} thy fathers{H1}, therefore he chose{H977}{(H8799)} their seed{H2233} after{H310} them, and brought thee out{H3318}{(H8686)} in his sight{H6440} with his mighty{H1419} power{H3581} out of Egypt{H4714};

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And because he loued thy fathers, therfore he chose their seed after them and broughte the out with his presence and with his myghtye power of Egipte:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  because he loued yi fathers, & chose their sede after the. And he brought ye out wt his presence thorow his mightie power out of Egipte,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And because hee loued thy fathers, therefore hee chose their seede after them, and hath brought thee out of Egypt in his sight by his mightie power,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And because he loued thy fathers, he chose their seede after them, & brought thee out in his sight with his mightie power out of Egypt,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

• World English Bible (2000)

  Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

Referenced Verses

• Deut 10:15 : 15 Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Exod 13:3 : 3 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: no leavened bread shall be eaten.
• Exod 13:9 : 9 And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:14 : 14 And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you shall say to him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
• Exod 33:14 : 14 And he said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Or has God attempted to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Deut 7:7-9 : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
• Deut 9:5 : 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.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
• Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
• Ps 34:15 : 15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
• Ps 105:6-9 : 6 O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen. 7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth. 8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
• Ps 114:1-6 : 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language; 2 Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What troubled you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you were driven back? 6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams; and O little hills, like lambs?
• Ps 136:10-15 : 10 To him who struck Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures forever: 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures forever: 12 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm: for his mercy endures forever. 13 To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures forever: 14 And made Israel pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures forever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures forever.
• Isa 41:8-9 : 8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. 9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
• Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not the one who cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Are you not the one who dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD will return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy will be upon their heads: they will obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning will flee away.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Isa 63:11-12 : 11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit within him? 12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Mal 1:2 : 2 I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,
• Luke 1:72-73 : 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, 73 The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
• Rom 9:5 : 5 Of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.