Deuteronomy 5:22
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
הַר
har
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עָנָן
ʻânân
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
יָסַף
yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
כָּתַב
kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
שְׁנַיִם
shᵉnayim
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
לוּחַ
lûwach
probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָסַף yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Study H3254 →לוּחַ lûwach
probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
Study H3871 →כָּתַב kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
Study H3789 →עָנָן ʻânân
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
Study H6051 →חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Study H2822 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →Cross References
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
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