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Forכִּיthe portionחֵלֶקof YHWHיְהֹוָהis his people,עַמּוֹJacobיַעֲקֹבthe allotmentחֶבֶלof his inheritance.נַחֲלָתוֹ
Deuteronomy 32:9
Study it in the app“For the portion of YHWH is his people, Jacob the allotment of his inheritance.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 32:9, word by word
- the portionחֵלֶקchelek
portion
What falls to one: "YHWH is what I receive".
Where else “chelek” appears- of YHWHיְהֹוָהyehova
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 “yehova” appears- is his peopleעַמּam
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “am” appears- Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov
Jacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appears- the allotmentחֶבֶלchevel
allotment
A plot measured with a rope, a portion of land.
Where else “chevel” appears- of his inheritanceנַחֲלָתnachalat
inheritance
Land or goods passed from parents to children.
Where else “nachalat” appears
The context
8When Elyon gave the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 · This verse (above)
10He found him in a land of wilderness, and in an emptiness of howling, a wasteland; he surrounded him, he cared for him, he guarded him like the pupil of his eye.