Study it in the app“If a matter for judgment is too difficult for you, between blood and blood, between case and case, and between blow and blow, matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses.”
Ifכִּיa matterדָבָרfor judgmentלַמִּשְׁפָּטis too difficultיִפָּלֵאfor you,מִמְּךָbetween bloodבֵּין דָּםand blood,לְדָםbetween caseבֵּין דִּיןand case,לְדִיןand betweenוּבֵיןblowנֶגַעand blow,לָנֶגַעmattersדִּבְרֵיof disputeרִיבֹתwithin your gates,בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָthen you shall ariseוְקַמְתָּand go upוְעָלִיתָto the placeאֶל הַמָּקוֹםthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָchooses.יִבְחַר בּוֹ
thing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “davar” appearsjudgment
The decision a judge gives on a case.
Where else “mishpat” appearsbe too hard
To be beyond reach: "is anything impossible for YHWH?".
Where else “yipale” appearsbloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “dam” appearscase
A matter before the judge.
Where else “din” appearsplague
Something that strikes suddenly, sometimes sent by YHWH.
Where else “nega” appearscase
A matter brought before the judge.
Where else “rivot” appearsgate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “sheare” appearsrise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “kamta” appearsgo up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alita” appearsplace
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appearsYHWH
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” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearselect
God picks out his people, a place or a king.
Where else “yivchar” appears7The hand of the witnesses shall be against him first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
8 · This verse (above)
9And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and you shall inquire, and they shall announce to you the word of judgment.
