Deuteronomy 7:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־אִם־כֹּ֤ה תַעֲשׂוּ֙ לָהֶ֔ם מִזְבְּחֹתֵיהֶ֣ם תִּתֹּ֔צוּ וּמַצֵּבֹתָ֖ם תְּשַׁבֵּ֑רוּ וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙ תְּגַדֵּע֔וּן וּפְסִילֵיהֶ֖ם תִּשְׂרְפ֥וּן בָּאֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

But thus taʿăśû to them: their mizbəḥōtêhem you tittōṣû, and their maṣṣēvōtām you təšabbērû, and their ʾăšêrêhem you təgaddēʿûn, and their pəsîlêhem you tiśrəpûn with the ʾēš.

Grammar Details

• *taʿăśû*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall do
• *mizbəḥōtêhem*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their altars
• *tittōṣû*: Piel imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall break down/demolish
• *maṣṣēvōtām*: noun feminine plural construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their sacred pillars
• *təšabbērû*: Piel imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall smash/break in pieces
• *ʾăšêrêhem*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their Asherim/sacred poles
• *təgaddēʿûn*: Piel imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall cut down/chop down
• *pəsîlêhem*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their carved images/idols
• *tiśrəpûn*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you shall burn
• *ʾēš*: noun feminine singular - fire

Word Meanings

• *taʿăśû*: do/act/perform
• *mizbəḥōtêhem*: altars/places of sacrifice
• *tittōṣû*: break down/tear down/demolish
• *maṣṣēvōtām*: sacred pillars/standing stones/memorial stones
• *təšabbērû*: smash/break in pieces/shatter
• *ʾăšêrêhem*: Asherim/sacred poles/wooden images
• *təgaddēʿûn*: cut down/chop down/hew down
• *pəsîlêhem*: carved images/idols/graven images
• *tiśrəpûn*: burn/consume with fire
• *ʾēš*: fire/flame

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But thus shall ye al with them; ye shall stroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thus shall ye deal{H6213} with them: ye shall break down{H7665} their altars,{H4196} and dash{H7665} in pieces their pillars,{H4676} and hew down{H1438} their Asherim,{H842} and burn{H8313} their graven images{H6456} with fire.{H784}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thus shall ye deal{H6213}{(H8799)} with them; ye shall destroy{H5422}{(H8799)} their altars{H4196}, and break down{H7665}{(H8762)} their images{H4676}, and cut down{H1438}{(H8762)} their groves{H842}, and burn{H8313}{(H8799)} their graven images{H6456} with fire{H784}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But thus ye shall deale with them: ouerthrowe their alters, breake doune their pilers, cut doune their groves ad burne their ymages with fyre.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But thus shal ye do with them: Ye shal ouerthrowe their altares, breake downe their pilers, cut downe their groues, & burne their ymages with fyre.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But thus ye shal deale with them, Ye shal ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But thus ye shall deale with them: Ye shall ouerthrowe their aulters, & breake downe their pillers, cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:24 : 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
• Exod 34:13 : 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.
• Deut 12:2-3 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.
• Deut 7:25 : 25 The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
• Deut 9:21 : 21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I threw the dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
• Deut 16:22 : 22 Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.
• Judg 6:25-26 : 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar unto the LORD your God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down.
• 2 Kgs 23:6-9 : 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of the prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9 Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech. 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the officer, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron. 13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled. 14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
• Lev 26:1 : 1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
• Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.