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Ifכִּיyou sayתֹאמַרin your heart,בִּלְבָבְךָ“Theseהָאֵלֶּהnationsהַגּוֹיִםare more numerousרַבִּיםthan I;מִמֶּנִּיhowאֵיכָהcan Iאוּכַלdispossess them?”לְהוֹרִישָׁם
Deuteronomy 7:17
Study it in the app“If you say in your heart, “These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 7:17, word by word
- you sayתֹאמַרtomar
think
To speak inwardly without saying it aloud; to think.
Where else “tomar” appears- in your heartלְבָבְlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim
Gentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appears- are more numerousרַבִּיםrabim
many
A great number of people or things.
Where else “rabim” appears- can Iאוּכַלuchal
be able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “uchal” appears- dispossess themהוֹרִישָׁhorisha
dispossess
To drive others out of their land.
Where else “horisha” appears
The context
16You shall devour all the peoples that YHWH your Elohim is giving you; your eye shall not pity them, and you shall not serve their gods, for it would be a snare to you.
17 · This verse (above)
18do not fear them; remember well what YHWH your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: