Everyכָּלplaceהַמָּקוֹםon whichאֲשֶׁר בּוֹthe soleכַּףof your footרַגְלְכֶםtreadsתִּדְרֹךְshall beיִהְיֶהyours:לָכֶםfromמִןthe wildernessהַמִּדְבָּרand Lebanon,וְהַלְּבָנוֹןfromמִןthe River,הַנָּהָרthe riverנְהַרEuphrates,פְּרָתtoוְעַדthe westernהָאַחֲרוֹןseaהַיָּםshall beיִהְיֶהyour territory.גְּבֻלְכֶם
Deuteronomy 11:24
Study it in the app“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea shall be your territory.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 11:24, word by word
- placeמָּקוֹםmakom
place
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appears- the soleכַּףkaf
sole
The underside of the foot, with which one treads.
Where else “kaf” appears- of your footרַגְלְragl
foot
The part of the body that supports and makes one walk.
Where else “ragl” appears- treadsתִּדְרֹךְtidroch
tread
To step on; crush grapes underfoot.
Where else “tidroch” appears- shall beיִהְיֶהyihye
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihye” appears- the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar
wilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appears- and Lebanonלְּבָנוֹןlevanon
Lebanon
See it on the mapWhere else “levanon” appears- the Riverנָּהָרnahar
river
River, stream; above all the Euphrates ("the River") or the Nile.
Where else “nahar” appears- Euphratesפְּרָתperat
Euphrates
See it on the mapWhere else “perat” appears- the westernאַחֲרוֹןacharon
western
What lies behind, on the western side, like the western sea.
Where else “acharon” appears- seaיָּםyam
sea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yam” appears- your territoryגְּבֻלְgevul
territory
The land within that border.
Where else “gevul” appears
Translation note
The “western sea” (word for word, “the sea behind”) is the Mediterranean.
Places in this verse
1Lebanon
Today: Lebanon (Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges)
A mountain range north of Israel, famous for its cedars; today it gives its name to the country of Lebanon.
Solomon asked for cedar wood from Lebanon to build the temple (1 Kgs 5:6). The Psalms compare the righteous to its cedars (Ps 92:12).
2Euphrates
Today: Euphrates River: Turkey, Syria, Iraq
The longest river in southwest Asia; it rises in Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq to the Persian Gulf.
It is one of the four rivers of Eden (Gen 2:14). God promised Abram the land as far as this river (Gen 15:18).
The context
23YHWH will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
24 · This verse (above)
25No man will stand before you; the dread of you and the terror of you YHWH your Elohim will put on the face of all the land on which you tread, as he has spoken to you.