What Does Deuteronomy 7:19 Mean in the King James?
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
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 sign of what happens next is already in what your eyes have seen: the same hand that brought you out reaches toward what you fear.
THE MEANING
The verse places what you fear beside what your eyes have already seen: signs, wonders, a strong hand, an arm stretched out. The LORD who brings you out acts against every people whose presence makes you afraid; the threat is measured against a deliverance already shown to you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that the power you fear exceeds the reach already shown in the deliverance you have seen.
THE ROOT
הוֹצִאֲךָ
hotzi'akha
GROWS FROM
יצא
Go out, come forth; in this form, cause someone to go out.
“brought thee out” in this verse is hotzi'akha. The verb carries an outward movement: you are brought from inside a constricted place into what lies beyond it. The verse turns that already-seen movement outward again, toward the peoples you fear.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, come forth
יָצָא
This is the root’s basic movement, present beneath the act of being brought out.
motsa: Going out, outlet, that which proceeds forth
מוֹצָא
It makes the root’s image more than escape: there is a way through and outward.
מַסֹּת
massot
GROWS FROM
נסה
Test, try, put to proof.
“temptations” in this verse is massot. The tests are named alongside signs, wonders, and the powerful hand your eyes saw. The verse holds fear beside evidence already experienced, so what you have seen becomes part of how you read what you fear now.
ALSO GROWS
massah: A test, trial
מַסָּה
The singular form names the kind of trial gathered into the verse’s plural “temptations.”
nissah: Tested, tried
נִסָּה
This verb form shows the root as an action that puts something to proof, connecting the trials to the signs and wonders seen.
הַנְּטוּיָה
hanetuyah
GROWS FROM
נטה
Stretch out, extend, incline.
“stretched out” in this verse is hanetuyah. The arm is pictured as extended and directed, paired with the mighty hand that acts. The image holds strength and reach together: the threat is met by power that reaches beyond the place of your fear.
ALSO GROWS
natah: Stretch out, extend, incline
נָטָה
This is the verb underneath the image of the arm reaching outward.
matteh: Staff; tribe
מַטֶּה
A related form associated with extension, it echoes the idea of reach as an enacted power, not an abstraction.
THE PATTERN
A seen act of deliverance becomes living evidence against the next force that inspires fear.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.THE THREAD
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:The same יצא (yatsa, go out) root appears in its causative form: the LORD brings you out from what constricts. The stretched arm is repeated too, showing the reach that makes a way out and then turns toward what you fear.
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