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Your cloakשִׂמְלָתְךָdid notלֹאwear outבָלְתָהon you,מֵעָלֶיךָand your footוְרַגְלְךָdid notלֹאswellבָצֵקָהtheseזֶהfortyאַרְבָּעִיםyears.שָׁנָה
Deuteronomy 8:4
Study it in the app“Your cloak did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell these forty years.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 8:4, word by word
- Your cloakשִׂמְלָתְsimlat
cloak
Cloak: the outer garment, which also served as a covering for sleeping.
Where else “simlat” appears- wear outבָלְתָהvalta
wear out
To become old and worn out through use or time, like clothing.
Where else “valta” appears- and your footרַגְלְragl
foot
The part of the body that supports and makes one walk.
Where else “ragl” appears- swellבָצֵקָהvatseka
swell
Swell: the foot becoming swollen from walking.
Where else “vatseka” appears- fortyאַרְבָּעִיםarbaim
forty
Forty.
Where else “arbaim” appears- yearsשָׁנָהshana
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appears
The context
3He afflicted you and let you hunger and fed you the manna, which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone does a human being live, but by everything that comes out of the mouth of YHWH does a human being live.
4 · This verse (above)
5Know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, YHWH your Elohim disciplines you.