What Does Deuteronomy 11:24 Mean in the King James?
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew verb for “tread” shares its root with “way,” picturing the promised land as a path made tangible by the feet that cross it.
THE MEANING
The verse gives belonging a bodily and spatial shape: soles meet ground, and the promise stretches between named edges, from wilderness and Lebanon to the far sea. Its language joins each step with the way itself, placing inheritance in traversed ground within a boundary.
THE ROOT
תִּדְרֹךְ
tirdōkh
GROWS FROM
דרך
To tread, step, or advance.
“tread” in this verse is tirdōkh. The verb in this verse and דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, “way”) share the root דרך. English separates the action from the route, while Hebrew places them in one word family: the promise’s reach is pictured through steps that extend a path.
ALSO GROWS
derekh: Way, road, or path.
דֶּרֶךְ
The noun for a way shares the root of treading, joining the land in this verse to the path across it.
midrakh: Footing or a place trodden.
מִדְרָךְ
This branch names ground in relation to the step placed upon it, sharpening the verse’s embodied picture of reach.
THE PATTERN
Belonging in a promise takes spatial form through ground a foot can cross and boundaries that hold it.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.THE THREAD
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.Both verses use תִּדְרֹךְ (tirdōkh, “you tread”), from דרך, the same root as דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, “way”). Joshua repeats Deuteronomy’s foot-and-ground formula, making the link between treading and the reach of the promise visible as geography.
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