Study it in the app“Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.”
Yet Iוְאָנֹכִיdestroyedהִשְׁמַדְתִּיthe Amoriteהָאֱמֹרִיbefore them,מִפְּנֵיהֶםwhoseאֲשֶׁרheightגָּבְהוֹwas like the heightכְּגֹבַהּof cedars,אֲרָזִיםand heוְ הוּאwas strongחָסֹןas the oaks;כָּאַלּוֹנִיםand I destroyedוָאַשְׁמִידhis fruitפִּרְיוֹaboveמִמַּעַלand his rootsוְשָׁרָשָׁיוbelow.מִתָּחַת
destroy
Destroy completely, exterminate.
Where else “hishmadti” appearsAmorite
Amorite: one of the main peoples of Canaan before Israel.
Where else “emori” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pene” appearsheight
The measure of something from bottom to top.
Where else “gav” appearscedar
Cedar: a large tree with fragrant, lasting wood.
Where else “arazim” appearsstrong
Strong, mighty.
Where else “chason” appearsoak
Oak.
Where else “alonim” appearsfruit
What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
Where else “piry” appearsabove
Upward, above; with ages, "twenty years old or more".
Where else “maal” appearsshoot
What gives rise to something; a shoot from a stock, like a descendant of Jesse.
Where else “sharashay” appears8And on garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and the wine of those who have been fined they drink in the house of their god.
9 · This verse (above)
10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.
