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The thingהַדָּבָרwas goodוַיִּיטַבin my eyes,בְּעֵינַיand I tookוָאֶקַּחtwelveשְׁנֵים עָשָׂרmenאֲנָשִׁיםfrom among you,מִכֶּםoneאֶחָדmanאִישׁfor eachלַtribe.שָּׁבֶט
Deuteronomy 1:23
Study it in the app“The thing was good in my eyes, and I took twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 1:23, word by word
- The thingדָּבָרdavar
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appears- was goodיִּיטַבyitav
go well
For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".
Where else “yitav” appears- in my eyesעֵינַena
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ena” appears- and I tookאֶקַּחekach
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “ekach” appears- twelveשְׁנֵיםshenem
double
Twice the amount, or two plus ten to say twelve.
Where else “shenem” appears- twelveעָשָׂרasar
-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “asar” appears- menאֲנָשִׁיםanashim
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appears- oneאֶחָדechad
one
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appears- tribeשָּׁבֶטshavet
tribe
Literally "the rod": one of the twelve great clans of Israel.
Where else “shavet” appears
The context
22Then all of you came near to me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us, that they may search out the land for us and bring back word to us about the way by which we should go up and the cities to which we will come.”
23 · This verse (above)
24They turned and went up into the hill country, came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.