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And YHWHוַ יְהוָהsaidיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלָי“They have spoken wellהֵיטִיבוּin whatאֲשֶׁרthey have spoken.דִּבֵּרוּ
Deuteronomy 18:17
Study it in the app“And YHWH said to me, “They have spoken well in what they have spoken.”
Moses announces a prophet like himself, whom the people are to listen toWho Jesus Is
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 18:17, word by word
- And 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- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “They have spoken wellהֵיטִיבוּhetivu
go well
For it to go well for someone: "that it may go well with you".
Where else “hetivu” appears- they have spokenדִּבֵּרוּdiberu
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diberu” appears
The context
16according to all that you asked of YHWH your Elohim at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, and this great fire let me not see anymore, so that I do not die.”
17 · This verse (above)
18A prophet I will raise up for them from among their brothers, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.