King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:13 in the King James Version says “Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. Take: Heb. Give” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. Take: Heb. Give”
Deuteronomy 1:13 · KJV
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. Take: Heb. Give
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. made: Heb. gave
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Take”
H3051to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
“men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“and understanding”
H995to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e., (generally) understand
“and known”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“among your tribes”
H7626a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
“and I will make”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“them rulers”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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