Nehemiah 9:8
Old Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
אָמַן
ʼâman
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen...
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
כָּרַת
kârath
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutti...
בְּרִית
bᵉrîyth
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
כְּנַעַנִי
Kᵉnaʻanîy
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile c...
חִתִּי
Chittîy
a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth
אֱמֹרִי
ʼĔmôrîy
an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
פְּרִזִּי
Pᵉrizzîy
a Perizzite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
יְבוּסִי
Yᵉbûwçîy
a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus
גִּרְגָּשִׁי
Girgâshîy
a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
זֶרַע
zeraʻ
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Key Terms in This Verse
מָצָא mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Study H4672 →גִּרְגָּשִׁי Girgâshîy
a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan
Study H1622 →כָּרַת kârath
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
Study H3772 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →כְּנַעַנִי Kᵉnaʻanîy
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
Study H3669 →אָמַן ʼâman
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Study H539 →Cross References
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake con...
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and...
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanit...
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the ...
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfi...
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the...
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from ...
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to ...
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a ...
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