Assembleהַקְהֵלthe people,הָעָםthe menהָאֲנָשִׁיםand the womenוְהַנָּשִׁיםand the little ones,וְהַטַּףand your resident alienוְגֵרְךָwho isאֲשֶׁרwithin your gates,בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָso thatלְמַעַןthey may hearיִשְׁמְעוּand so thatוּלְמַעַןthey may learnיִלְמְדוּand fearוְיָרְאוּYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֵיכֶםand take careוְשָׁמְרוּto doלַעֲשׂוֹתallכָּלthe wordsדִּבְרֵיof thisהַזֹּאתinstruction;הַתּוֹרָה
Deuteronomy 31:12
Study it in the app“Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your resident alien who is within your gates, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and fear YHWH your Elohim and take care to do all the words of this instruction;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 31:12, word by word
- Assembleהַקְהֵלhakhel
assemble
Assemble people, call them together; gather.
Where else “hakhel” appears- the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- the menאֲנָשִׁיםanashim
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appears- and the womenנָּשִׁיםnashim
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “nashim” appears- and the little onesטַּףtaf
little ones
Little ones: the children of a family.
Where else “taf” appears- and your resident alienגֵרְger
resident alien
Foreigner who lives in a land that is not his own, without the rights of those who belong to the place.
Where else “ger” appears- within your gatesשְׁעָרֶיsheare
gate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “sheare” appears- they may hearיִשְׁמְעוּyishmu
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “yishmu” appears- they may learnיִלְמְדוּyilmdu
learn
To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
Where else “yilmdu” appears- and fearיָרְאוּyaru
revere
To revere God, or honor one's parents.
Where else “yaru” 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 Elohimאֱלֹהֵיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears- and take careשָׁמְרוּshamru
take care
To watch out for oneself.
Where else “shamru” appears- to doעֲשׂוֹתasot
carry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asot” appears- the wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- instructionתּוֹרָהtora
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appears
The context
11when all Israel comes to appear before the face of YHWH your Elohim at the place that he chooses, you shall read this instruction before all Israel, in their ears.
12 · This verse (above)
13and that their sons, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear YHWH your Elohim all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there and possess it.”