What Does Deuteronomy 11:15 Mean?
And I will give grass in your fields for your animals, and you will eat and be filled.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.THE KEY
What the English calls “send” is “give, set, place”: fullness begins with provision placed in the field, within reach of life.
THE MEANING
The field is a place where provision arrives as growth: cattle are fed, and you receive food until your body has enough. The verse speaks of fullness as something concrete, embodied, and given through the life of the land.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that your fullness begins and ends with what you can produce by yourself loosens here: nourishment is given into the field before it reaches your table.
THE ROOT
וְנָתַתִּי
ve-natati
GROWS FROM
נתן
give, set, place
The verb rendered “send” is וְנָתַתִּי (ve-natati), from נתן (n-t-n), “give, set, place.” It pictures provision placed in the field, where cattle can eat and you can reach fullness; the root adds the nearness of a gift already set within reach.
ALSO GROWS
natan: give, set, place
נָתַן
The root’s basic sense pictures provision placed into the field, ready to nourish life.
mattanah: gift
מַתָּנָה
This noun names something given, opening the field’s growth as received provision.
וְשָׂבָעְתָּ
vesava'ta
GROWS FROM
שבע
be sated, have enough
“filled” in this verse is vesava'ta. The word translated “be full” is וְשָׂבָעְתָּ (vesava’ta), from שבע (s-b-ʿ), “be sated, have enough.” It names bodily satiety, so the promise reaches all the way to the feeling of enough in the body.
ALSO GROWS
savea: full, satisfied, sated
שָׂבֵעַ
This form names the person who has received enough, making the verse’s fullness bodily and concrete.
sova: fullness, satisfaction, plenty
שֹׂבַע
This noun names the state of having enough that the field’s provision makes possible.
THE PATTERN
Fullness comes as provision placed in the living world and received as food.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping thing upon the earth, in which there is living soul, I have given every green herb for food. And it was so.He makes the grass sprout for the cattle, and the herb for the service of humankind, to bring bread out from the earth.Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?THE THREAD
And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping thing upon the earth, in which there is living soul, I have given every green herb for food. And it was so.In Deuteronomy the KJV says “send,” while Genesis says “given”; Hebrew uses the same root נתן (n-t-n), “give, set, place,” in both. The shared word frames nourishment as provision set within the creature’s world, from green herb to the field that feeds you now.
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