Deuteronomy 7:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י תֹאמַר֙ בִּלְבָ֣בְךָ֔ רַבִּ֛ים הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִמֶּ֑נִּי אֵיכָ֥ה אוּכַ֖ל לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃

Transliteration

If you tōʾmar in your livāvəkā, "Rabbîm these haggôyim than me, ʾêkâ can I ʾûkal to ləhôrîšām?"

Grammar Details

*tōʾmar*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will say
*livāvəkā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heart
*Rabbîm*: adjective masculine plural - many/numerous
*haggôyim*: article + noun masculine plural - the nations
*ʾêkâ*: interrogative adverb - how?
*ʾûkal*: Qal imperfect 1st common singular - I will be able
*ləhôrîšām*: preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - to dispossess them

Word Meanings

*tōʾmar*: say/speak/think
*livāvəkā*: your heart/your mind/your inner self
*Rabbîm*: many/numerous/abundant
*haggôyim*: the nations/the peoples/the gentiles
*ʾêkâ*: how/in what way
*ʾûkal*: be able/succeed/prevail
*ləhôrîšām*: to dispossess them/to drive them out/to disinherit them

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Referenced Verses

Num 33:53 : 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Num 13:32 : 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Deut 8:17 : 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deut 18:21 : 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
Josh 17:16-18 : 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. 17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: 18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Isa 14:13 : 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 47:8 : 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isa 49:21 : 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Jer 13:22 : 22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Luke 9:47 : 47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 7:1-2
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1When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
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Deut 11:23
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23Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 7:21-24
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21Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
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Deut 7:18-19
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18Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
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Deut 9:1-5
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1Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
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Deut 12:29-30
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Deut 4:38
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Judg 11:23-24
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Deut 6:19
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Deut 11:25
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Deut 17:14
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Deut 11:31
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Exod 34:11
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Deut 20:1
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