Deuteronomy 30:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־יִפְנֶ֥ה לְבָבְךָ֖ וְלֹ֣א תִשְׁמָ֑ע וְנִדַּחְתָּ֗ וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֛יתָ לֵאלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִ֖ים וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם

Transliteration

But if wəʾim-yipneh your ləbābəkā and not lōʾ tišmāʿ and wəniddaḥtā and wəhištaḥăwîtā to ʾĕlōhîm other and waʿăbadtām

Grammar Details

• *wəʾim-yipneh*: conjunction + conditional particle + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - but if it turns away
• *ləbābəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heart
• *lōʾ tišmāʿ*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you will not hear/obey
• *wəniddaḥtā*: waw-consecutive + niphal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you are drawn away
• *wəhištaḥăwîtā*: waw-consecutive + hishtaphel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you bow down/worship
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - gods
• *waʿăbadtām*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and you serve them

Word Meanings

• *yipneh*: turn away/turn aside/depart
• *ləbābəkā*: your heart/mind/inner self
• *tišmāʿ*: hear/listen to/obey
• *wəniddaḥtā*: be drawn away/be led astray/be seduced
• *wəhištaḥăwîtā*: bow down/prostrate yourself/worship
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: gods/deities
• *waʿăbadtām*: serve them/worship them/be enslaved to them

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But if your heart turns away and you do not obey, and if you are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But and yf thyne hert turne awaye, so that thou wilt not heare: but shalt goo astraye and worshepe straunge goddes and serue them,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But yf thou turnest awaye thine hert, so that thou wilt not heare, but fall a waye, to worshipe other goddes and to serue them,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But and yf thine heart turne away, so that thou wylt not heare, but shalt go astray and worship straunge gods, and serue them:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

• World English Bible (2000)

  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

Referenced Verses

• Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
• Deut 17:17 : 17 Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.
• Deut 29:18-28 : 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood; 19 And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
• 1 Sam 12:25 : 25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.
• 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to these in love.
• Prov 1:32 : 32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from himself.
• John 3:19-21 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.
• 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.