KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Deuteronomy 29:21 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And the Lord” | יְהוָה֙ | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “shall separate” | וְהִבְדִּיל֤וֹ | To divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.) | separate |
| “him unto evil” | לְרָעָ֔ה | Bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) | evil |
| “out of all” | מִכֹּ֖ל | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | out all |
| “the tribes” | שִׁבְטֵ֣י | A scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan | tribes |
| “of Israel,” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “according to all” | כְּכֹל֙ | Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) | according all |
| “the curses” | אָל֣וֹת | An imprecation | curses |
| “of the covenant” | הַבְּרִ֔ית | A compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh) | covenant |
| “that are written” | הַכְּתוּבָ֕ה | To grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe) | are written |
| “in this” | הַזֶּֽה׃ | The masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that | in this |
| “book” | בְּסֵ֥פֶר | Properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book | book |
| “of the law:” | הַתּוֹרָ֖ה | A precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch | law |
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19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20 The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;
23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
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