Thursday, May 21, 2020

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 annotated

If, however, from there you start searching  once more for Yahweh your God, and if you search  for him honestly and sincerely, you will find  him. You will suffer; everything I have said will befall you, but in the final days you will return to Yahweh your God and listen  to his voice. For Yahweh your God is a merciful God and will not desert or destroy you or forget the covenant which he made on oath with your ancestors.


searchingבָּקַשׁ= baqash
to seek, require, desire, exact, request; to seek to find; to seek the face; to ask, request; to search out; to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire; to examine; to entreat, to supplicate

searchדָּרַשׁ= darash
to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require; to seek deity in prayer and worship; to practice, study, follow, seek with application; to follow (for pursuit or search); diligently, inquire, make inquisition; to learn, to study: frequent; apply oneself; to take care for

honestly and sincerelyכֹּל= kol
all, the whole of; totality, everything; any or every; altogether

findמָצָא= matsa'
secure, acquire, get (thing sought); to meet, encounter; to detect; to be in the possession of; to cause to find, attain; to receive; to wish to find; to be acquired by

sufferצַר= tsar
straits, distress; a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); anguish, distress; trouble; sorrow, tribulation

returnשׁוּב= shuwb
to return, turn back; to turn back (to God), repent; turn back (from evil); to restore, refresh, repair; recall, recompense, recover; reverse; turn about; to turn oneself; restore

listenשָׁמַע= shama`
to hear, listen to, obey; give heed; yield to; to obey, be obedient; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc....); consent, consider

mercifulרַחוּם= rachuwm; from racham=  רָחַם
to love, love deeply, have mercy, be compassionate, have tender affection, have compassion; pity; cherishing

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