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YHWHיְהוָהsaidוַיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלַי“I have seenרָאִיתִיthisהַזֶּהpeople,אֶת הָעָםand look,וְהִנֵּהitהוּאis a stubbornקְשֵׁה עֹרֶףpeople.עַם
Deuteronomy 9:13
Study it in the app“YHWH said to me, “I have seen this people, and look, it is a stubborn people.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 9:13, word by word
- 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- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “I have seenרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- peopleעָםam
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “am” appears- is a stubbornקְשֵׁהkeshe
stubborn
Unyielding: "stiff-necked people".
Where else “keshe” appears- is a stubbornעֹרֶףoref
stubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “oref” appears
The context
12YHWH said to me, “Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast image.”
13 · This verse (above)
14Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they.”