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So I seizedוָאֶתְפֹּשׂthe twoבִּשְׁנֵיtabletsהַלֻּחֹתand threw themוָאַשְׁלִכֵםfromמֵעַלmy twoשְׁתֵּיhandsיָדָיand broke themוָאֲשַׁבְּרֵםbefore your eyes.לְעֵינֵיכֶם
Deuteronomy 9:17
Study it in the app“So I seized the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and broke them before your eyes.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 9:17, word by word
- So I seizedאֶתְפֹּשׂetpos
seize
To grab or capture someone.
Where else “etpos” appears- the twoשְׁנֵיshene
both
The two together, both of them.
Where else “shene” appears- tabletsלֻּחֹתluchot
tablet
Tablet, a flat piece of stone, wood or metal to write on; also a board or plank.
Where else “luchot” appears- and threw themאַשְׁלִכֵashliche
throw
To throw something with force, far off or down.
Where else “ashliche” appears- handsיָדָyada
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yada” appears- and broke themאֲשַׁבְּרֵashabre
break
To break something to pieces.
Where else “ashabre” appears- before your eyesעֵינֵיene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears
The context
16I looked, and look, you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim; you had made for yourselves a cast calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that YHWH had commanded you.
17 · This verse (above)
18Then I lay prostrate before YHWH, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink, because of all your sin that you had sinned by doing what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger.