Deuteronomy 10:22
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
עֶשֶׂר
ʻeser
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
כּוֹכָב
kôwkâb
a star (as round or as shining); figuratively, a prince
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
Key Terms in This Verse
נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance gi...
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
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