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Your eyeעֵינְךָshall notלֹאpityתָחוֹסhim,עָלָיוand you shall removeוּבִעַרְתָּthe innocentהַנָּקִיbloodדַםfrom Israel,מִיִּשְׂרָאֵלso that it may go wellוְטוֹבwith you.לָךְ
Deuteronomy 19:13
Study it in the app“Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall remove the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 19:13, word by word
- Your eyeעֵינְen
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “en” appears- pityתָחוֹסtachos
pity, spare
Have pity, take compassion; spare. "Let your eye not pity" means do not worry about what you leave behind.
Where else “tachos” appears- and you shall removeבִעַרְתָּviarta
sweep away
To wipe out completely: "purge the evil".
Where else “viarta” appears- the innocentנָּקִיnaki
innocent
Without guilt: blood of one who did no wrong.
Where else “naki” appears- bloodדַםdam
bloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “dam” appears- from Israelיִּשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- so that it may go wellטוֹבtov
good
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tov” appears
The context
12the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he dies.
13 · This verse (above)
14You shall not move the boundary of your neighbor, which the first generations have set in your inheritance that you will inherit in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you to possess it.