Study it in the app“Hear, Israel: you are crossing today the Jordan to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,”
Hear,שְׁמַעIsrael:יִשְׂרָאֵלyouאַתָּהare crossingעֹבֵרtodayהַיּוֹםthe Jordanאֶת הַיַּרְדֵּןto go inלָבֹאto dispossessלָרֶשֶׁתnationsגּוֹיִםgreaterגְּדֹלִיםand mightierוַעֲצֻמִיםthan you,מִמֶּךָּcitiesעָרִיםgreatגְּדֹלֹתand fortifiedוּבְצֻרֹתup to the heavens,בַּשָּׁמָיִם
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “shema” appearsIsrael
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” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “over” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsJordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “vo” appearsdispossess
To drive others out of their land.
Where else “reshet” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedolim” appearsmighty, numerous
Strong, mighty; numerous.
Where else “atsumim” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appearsfortify
To surround a city with walls.
Where else “vetsurot” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsJordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
1 · This verse (above)
2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”
