so thatלְמַעַןyour daysיְמֵיכֶםand the daysוִימֵיof your childrenבְנֵיכֶםmay be manyיִרְבּוּonעַלthe landהָאֲדָמָהthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהsworeנִשְׁבַּעto your fathersלַאֲבֹתֵיכֶםto giveלָתֵתthem,לָהֶםas the daysכִּימֵיof the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִםoverעַלthe earth.הָאָרֶץ
Deuteronomy 11:21
Study it in the app“so that your days and the days of your children may be many on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 11:21, word by word
- your daysיְמֵיyeme
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appears- of your childrenבְנֵיvene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vene” appears- may be manyיִרְבּוּyirbu
multiply
To grow in number.
Where else “yirbu” appears- the landאֲדָמָהadama
land
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- sworeנִשְׁבַּעnishba
swear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishba” appears- to your fathersאֲבֹתֵיavote
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appears- to giveתֵתtet
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appears- of the heavensשָּׁמַיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears
The context
20You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 · This verse (above)
22For if you carefully keep all this commandment that I am commanding you to do, loving YHWH your Elohim, walking in all his ways, and clinging to him,