Deuteronomy 28:7

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִתֵּ֨ן יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־אֹיְבֶ֙יךָ֙ הַקָּמִ֣ים עָלֶ֔יךָ נִגָּפִ֖ים לְפָנֶ֑יךָ בְּדֶ֤רֶךְ אֶחָד֙ יֵצְא֣וּ אֵלֶ֔יךָ וּבְשִׁבְעָ֥ה דְרָכִ֖ים יָנ֥וּסוּ לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

Yittēn YHWH ʾet-ʾōyĕbêkā the qāmîm against ʿālêkā niggāpîm before lĕpānêkā in derek ʾeḥād they will yēṣĕʾû unto ʾēlêkā and in šibʿāh dĕrākîm they will yānûsû before lĕpānêkā.

Grammar Details

• *Yittēn*: imperfect, Qal, 3rd masculine singular - he will give
• *YHWH*: proper name - the LORD
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʾōyĕbêkā*: masculine plural participle with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your enemies
• *qāmîm*: masculine plural participle, active, Qal with definite article - those rising up
• *ʿālêkā*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - against you
• *niggāpîm*: masculine plural participle, passive, Niphal - struck/defeated
• *lĕpānêkā*: preposition + plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - before you
• *derek*: masculine singular construct - way/road of
• *ʾeḥād*: numeral, masculine singular - one
• *yēṣĕʾû*: imperfect, Qal, 3rd masculine plural - they will go out
• *ʾēlêkā*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - unto you
• *šibʿāh*: numeral, feminine - seven
• *dĕrākîm*: masculine plural noun - ways/roads
• *yānûsû*: imperfect, Qal, 3rd masculine plural - they will flee

Word Meanings

• *niggāpîm*: defeated/struck/smitten
• *derek ʾeḥād*: one way/single path [unified attack]
• *šibʿāh dĕrākîm*: seven ways [complete scattering/total defeat]

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 22:38-41 : 38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed. 39 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. 40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
• Lev 26:7-8 : 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
• Deut 28:25 : 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
• 2 Chr 20:22-25 : 22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another. 24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped. 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
• 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God. 21 In every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
• 2 Chr 32:21-22 : 21 Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword. 22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.
• Ps 89:23 : 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
• 2 Chr 14:2-6 : 2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God: 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
• 2 Chr 14:9-9 : 9 There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah. 10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. 11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don't let man prevail against you." 12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. 13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his army; and they carried away very much booty. 14 They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them. 15 They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 19:4 : 4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
• Josh 8:22 : 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
• Josh 10:10-11 : 10 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah. 11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword.
• Josh 10:42 : 42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
• 1 Sam 7:3-4 : 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." 4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
• 1 Sam 7:10-11 : 10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel. 11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.