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so thatוְinnocentנָקִיbloodדָּםis notלֹאshedיִשָּׁפֵךְin the midstבְּקֶרֶבof your landאַרְצְךָthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָis givingנֹתֵןyouלְךָas an inheritance,נַחֲלָהand bloodguiltדָּמִיםbeוְהָיָהon you.עָלֶיךָ
Deuteronomy 19:10
Study it in the app“so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and bloodguilt be on you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 19:10, word by word
- innocentנָקִיnaki
innocent
Without guilt: blood of one who did no wrong.
Where else “naki” appears- bloodדָּםdam
bloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “dam” appears- shedיִשָּׁפֵךְyishafech
spill
To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.
Where else “yishafech” appears- in the midstקֶרֶבkerev
midst
In the midst of: "among the people".
Where else “kerev” appears- of your landאַרְצְarts
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arts” 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- your Elohimאֱלֹהֶיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears- is givingנֹתֵןnoten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “noten” appears- as an inheritanceנַחֲלָהnachala
inheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachala” appears- beהָיָהhaya
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “haya” appears
The context
9if you keep all this commandment by doing it, which I am commanding you today, to love YHWH your Elohim and to walk in his ways all the days, then you shall add for yourself three more cities to these three,
10 · This verse (above)
11But if there is a man who hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him and rises against him and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,